donga

noun2

1. •
   (Australia) A transportable building providing accommodation for one person, often used on remote work sites or as tourist accommodation.

   • He not only expects his fence to be perfect, he also expects his dongas to be the best workman′s huts in Australia, and that is what they are. — 2004
2. •
   (South-Africa) A usually dry, eroded watercourse running only in times of heavy rain.

   • Major Pack-Beresford and other officers were shot down, and every unhorsed man remained necessarily as a prisoner under the very muzzles of the riflemen in the donga. — 1900