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Angola

//æŋˈɡəʊlə// name, noun

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  1. 1
    A country in Southern Africa. Official name: Republic of Angola. Capital and largest city: Luanda.

    "Social assistance payments are being digitized for the first time under Angola’s first poverty-targeted cash transfer project, Kwenda, which started in May 2020 as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Through the Government-to-Person (G2P) Payments initiative, the World Bank’s Finance, Competitiveness & Innovation Global Practice, or FCI, and the Social Protection and Jobs engagements in Angola have come together to advance the agenda on payments digitization."

  2. 2
    A country in Southern Africa. Official name: Republic of Angola. Capital and largest city: Luanda.; A former colony of Portugal, Portuguese Angola, also known as Portuguese West Africa and officially the State of West Africa, from 1575 to 1975. historical
  3. 3
    A country in Southern Africa. Official name: Republic of Angola. Capital and largest city: Luanda.; The People's Republic of Angola, from 1975 to 1992.
  4. 4
    The Louisiana State Penitentiary.

    "“Who wanna get stuck in Angola with Lana Lee? She was bad enough on the outside. Shit.”"

  5. 5
    An unincorporated community in Sussex County, Delaware, United States.
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  1. 6
    A city, the county seat of Steuben County, Indiana, United States.
  2. 7
    An unincorporated community in Labette County, Kansas, United States.
  3. 8
    A village in Erie County, New York, United States.
Noun
  1. 1
    Synonym of angora (cat).

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Portuguese (Reino de) Angola (“(kingdom of) Angola”), from Kimbundu ngola, title held by native kings at the time of the Portuguese colonization in the 15th century AD. Compare Kituba ngolo (“strength”). First attested in c. 1595. The Louisiana State Penitentiary is named "Angola" after the Angola slave plantation it replaced, which was named after the country, from which many enslaved people in Louisiana had been taken.

Etymology 2

From Portuguese (Reino de) Angola (“(kingdom of) Angola”), from Kimbundu ngola, title held by native kings at the time of the Portuguese colonization in the 15th century AD. Compare Kituba ngolo (“strength”). First attested in c. 1595. The Louisiana State Penitentiary is named "Angola" after the Angola slave plantation it replaced, which was named after the country, from which many enslaved people in Louisiana had been taken.

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