Consolidated dictionary checks — "teranga" (English-language reference works)
- Type: this project's own direct-fetch checks, consolidated in one file per this project's established practice for negative-result batches (cf.
dictionary-checks-yaaburnee-absent.md,dictionary-checks-toska.md). - Accessed: 2026-09-04.
Extract
- Merriam-Webster (
merriam-webster.com/dictionary/teranga): HTTP 404 — no entry. - English Wiktionary (
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Terangaand lowercase/wiki/teranga): HTTP 404 — no entry (checked both capitalizations). - Dictionary.com (
dictionary.com/browse/teranga): no entry found; the page instead serves results for the unrelated word "Serang" with a "Search instead for teranga" link, a mismatch-not-error pattern this project has already documented for toska (which redirected to the dog-breed entry "Tosa") and ya'aburnee. - Collins Dictionary (
collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/teranga): HTTP 403 — blocked, consistent with this project's standing Collins fence (seeNEXT.md's Fences); not confirmed absent, only unreachable. - English Wikipedia bare title "Teranga": resolves to an unrelated article, the spider genus Teranga (named from Malay "terang," "bright," per that article's own etymology note) — not a disambiguation page and not the Wolof word at all, a third distinct "guessed URL resolves to something unrelated" case for this project (after toska's Dictionary.com and Wiktionary mismatches).
- Net result: teranga shows no confirmed adoption by any major English-language general reference work checked this session — patterning with komorebi, meraki, and ya'aburnee rather than with hygge, wabi-sabi, or ubuntu. Oxford Learner's and the OED were not attempted this session (standing fences already cover both; time was spent on the sources above instead).