bunya
English
Etymology 1
From Yagara bunya bunya; compare also Waka-Kabic forms such as Gabi bunyi, Wakawaka bunyi.
Alternative forms
- bunna bunna (obsolete)
- bunya bunya, bunyah-bunyah
Noun
bunya (plural bunyas)
- The bunya pine, Araucaria bidwillii, native to Queensland. [from 19th c.]
- 1887, Maturin Murray Ballou, Under the Southern Cross:
- The palm takes the place of the eucalyptus to a certain extent, and the woods teem with the bunya-bunya, — a very desirable and ornamental tree, which belongs to the pine family.
- 1993, Philip McLaren, Sweet Water…Stolen Land, in Heiss & Minter, Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin 2008, p. 142:
- Her three favourite bunyah-bunyah nut trees were destroyed last year to make way for more grazing land for sheep and other animals whose cloven hooves destroyed the delicate topsoil and laid bare the earth.
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Etymology 2
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Alternative forms
- bunyah
Noun
bunya (plural bunyas)
- (dated, India) A banyan, a member of a specific Hindu caste.
Anagrams
- Yanbu, unbay
Phuthi
Etymology
From bu- + -nya.
Noun
búnya class 14
- excrement, feces
Inflection
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