different between baniak vs banian
baniak
English
Alternative forms
- banyak
- buniak
- bunyak
Etymology
From Ukrainian ?????? (banják, “cooking pot”).
Noun
baniak (plural baniaks)
- (humorous derogatory slang, chiefly italicized) A fool.
- 1981: Andrew Suknaski and Dennis Cooley, In the name of Narid: new poems, Porcupine's Quill, p 114:
- ‘baniak baniak you ole fucker! | you’re tighter than hogan’s goat!’ | baniak only smiles | a perfect smile
- [footnote] baniak: Ukrainian for cooking pot.
- 1986: Janice Kulyk Keefer, The Paris-Napoli express, Oberon Press, p 78:
- What woman could ever consent to be his wife, to lose all her dignity and position with a bunyak like that?”
- 1987: Janice Kulyk Keefer, “Unseen, the cuckoo sings at dawn”, in Jars Balan ed., Yarmarok: Ukrainian writing in Canada since the Second World War, Edmonton: CIUS Press, p 103:
- “What did I keep telling you, Oleh—you baniak, you elephant's arsehole?
- 1987: Michael John Nimchuk, “The day my grandad died”, in Jars Balan ed., Yarmarok: Ukrainian writing in Canada since the Second World War, Edmonton: CIUS Press, p 172:
- No . . . no. She doesn't give damn for you. Thinks Ziggy good boy but stupid. A baniak a real woman would leave first chance.
- 1988: Levi Dronyk, “The puck artist”, in Doug Beardsley ed., The rocket, the flower, the hammer, and me, Vancouver: Polestar Books, pp 161:
- Baniak, eh? ¶Literally, a baniak is a pot; in the vernacular, it becomes a “dummy.” Among Ukrainians it's used in a self-deprecating context, or, as with Sammy, an endearment. If “the English” used the word, or the malicious “bohunk,” which amounted to calling a Ukrainian a “nigger,” to address us, a fistfight usually resulted.
- “Baniak, quiet, sshh,” Sammy frowned. “Why you have to be so noisy? How come?”
- 1995: Michael Ewanchuk, Reflections and reminiscences: Ukrainians in Canada, 1892–1992, M. Ewanchuk, p 36:
- As someone said, that even one with a university degree, BA, could be called “Baniak”, or an empty pot, if that individual isolated himself from the community to which he naturally belonged.
- 1995: Nika Rylski, “Just a kommedia”, in Aviva Ravel ed., Canadian mosaic: 6 plays, Dundurn Press, p 130:
- God. What a Banyak . . .
- 1981: Andrew Suknaski and Dennis Cooley, In the name of Narid: new poems, Porcupine's Quill, p 114:
Usage notes
Usually italicized as a foreign term not fully naturalized in English.
Anagrams
- Abnaki
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banian
English
Noun
banian (plural banians)
- Alternative spelling of banyan
References
- banian in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Finnish
Noun
banian
- banyan (Ficus benghalensis)
Declension
Synonyms
- banianviikuna
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ba.nj??/
Noun
banian m (plural banians)
- banyan (tropical Indian fig tree)
- banian (Indian trader)
Further reading
- “banian” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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