different between bunya vs bunia

English

Etymology 1

From Yagara bunya bunya, Gabi bunyi, Wakawaka bunyi.

Alternative forms

• bunna bunna (obsolete)
• bunya bunya, bunyah-bunyah

Noun

bunya (plural bunyas)

1. The bunya pine, Araucaria bidwillii, native to Queensland. [from 19th c.]
   • 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.

Etymology 2

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Alternative forms

• bunyah

Noun

bunya (plural bunyas)

1. (dated, India) A banyan, a member of a specific Hindu caste.

Anagrams

• Yanbu, unbay

Phuthi

Etymology

From bu- +? -nya.

Noun

búnya 14

1. excrement, feces

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

English

Noun

bunia (plural bunias)

1. Alternative form of bunnia

Anagrams

• Aubin, Nubia, nubia

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?bu?.ni.a/, [?bu?niä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?bu.ni.a/, [?bu?ni?]

Noun

b?nia n

1. nominative plural of b?nion
2. accusative plural of b?nion
3. vocative plural of b?nion