buruma
See also: burumā and burūmā
Gamilaraay
buruma
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbuɻuma/
Alternative forms
- būrumo, búrumo
- bŭrrŭmă
Noun
buruma
- tame dog
- Nginda dhii wuuna burumagu.
- You give the meat to the dog!
- 1856, William Ridley, On the Kamilaroi Tribe of Australians and Their Dialect, in Journal of the Ethnological Society of London, vol. 4
- Dog . . . bŭrrŭmă.
- 1856, William Ridley, gurre kamilaroi or Kamilaroi Sayings
- baiame gīr yārāman, būrumo, bundar, mūte, dūli, dīnoun, buralga, biloela, millimumul, gulamboli, kobado, mullion, guiya, nūrai, ŋundoba, burulu, muŋin, kānuŋo di gimobi.
- 1903, R. H. Mathews, Languages of the Kamilaroi and Other Aboriginal Tribes of New South Wales, in The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, vol. 33
- Dog .... .... buruma
Synonyms
- marayin
- mirri
- ngurran
References
- Peter Austin, A Reference Dictionary of Gamilaraay, northern New South Wales (1993)
Japanese
Romanization
buruma
- Rōmaji transcription of ブルマ