pātaga

Etymology
Borrowed from, a dialectal variant of standard 🇨🇬, from. This word is first mentioned in 17th-century dictionaries, already in its modern form and with its modern meaning.

Noun

 * 1) whip, lash, knout tool, usually a flexible rod, often with a rope, for hiting animals, people, etc., in order to incite them to work, or to punish them