bundu

bundu

See also: Bundu

English

Etymology

From Shona bundo (“grassland”).

Noun

bundu (plural bundus)

1. (South Africa) A wilderness region, away from cities.
   • 1978, André Brink, Rumours of Rain, Vintage 2000, p. 291:

     “You start thinking again: ‘It's for all you cunts down there in Pretoria we're getting blown to pieces in this bundu.’”

   • 2005, Mazo Sybil T. MaDlamini Buthelezi, African Nurse Pioneers in KwaZulu/Natal - 1920-2000, page 113:

     […] before she reached Pholela in the wintry mountainous bundus of Bulwer.

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Central Dusun

Noun

bundu

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Lindu

Noun

bundu

1. product; result

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Old Norse

Verb

bundu

1. third-person plural past indicative active of binda

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Shona

Noun

búndú class 5 (plural mapúndú class 6)

1. lump
2. knot in wood