A light, cart-like vehicle used in India and Southeast Asia, typically pulled by horses or oxen and used for transporting goods or passengers.
From Hindi/Urdu 'bhaṅgī' or similar South Asian language roots. The word traveled to English through colonial India and is documented in Anglo-Indian vocabulary.
Colonial-era English adopted hundreds of transportation words like 'banghy,' 'tonga,' and 'rickshaw' directly from the languages of the lands they occupied—the vocabulary of imperialism.
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