a piece of women’s or men’s underwear for the lower part of the body, consisting of a small front and back part connected by narrow sections 坦a(tanga):身体下部的一块女士或男士内裤,由狭窄的前部和后部连接,由狭窄的部分组成。 Word Originearly 20th cent. (denoting a loincloth worn by indigenous peoples in tropical America): from Portuguese, ultimately of Bantu origin. (Bantu is a group of Niger-Congo languages). The current sense dates from the 1970s.