Gonggabu

Gongabu गोंगबु
Village of Tokha Municipality
Gongabu Location in Nepal
Coordinates: 27°45′N 85°19′E / 27.75°N 85.32°E / 27.75; 85.32
Country	Nepal
Province	Bagmati Province
District	Kathmandu District
Population  (2011)
• Total	54,410
Time zone	UTC+5:45 (Nepal Time)

Gongabu is a village and former Village Development Committee that is now part of Tokha Municipality in Kathmandu District in Bagmati Province of central Nepal. At the time of the 2011 Nepal census it had a population of 54,410 and had 14,456 households in it in an area just 270 hectares in size.^[1]

Toponymy

Linguistic origin

• Linguistic family: Sino-Tibetan
• Language: Newari

Etymology

“Gongga/Gongga” likely comes from a Tibeto-Burman or Newar origin name. “Bu” may be interpreted as “village, settlement, or hamlet.” Therefore, Gonggabu could mean “the settlement of the Gongga group” or “the village associated with Gongga.”

Gongga / Gong is possibly a clan, community, or descriptive term of Tibeto-Burman origin. Comparable with Tibetan Gongkar (gong-dkar) meaning “white stupa” or clan names with Gong. Bu (बु) means “village, place, settlement” in several Newar/Tibeto-Burman dialects; in Nepali also used in some toponyms as “hamlet.” The toponym Gonggabu thus likely reflects a Tibeto-Burman/Newar origin, indicating “village of Gongga (clan/place).”

References

1. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-07-31. Retrieved 2012-11-01.