Meanings
plural bunjaras · alternative banjara · alternative binjarree · alternative binjarry · alternative brinjaree · alternative brinjarree · alternative brinjarry · alternative bunjarree
- IndiaA wandering grain and salt merchant in the Deccan Plateau (Southern India).
Thirty years ago this ford was on the track of the bunjaras, and I have seen two thousand pack-bullocks cross in one night.
1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘At Twenty-two’, In Black and White, Folio Society, published 2005, page 410
Origin
- Sanskritवणिज्या“trade”
- Hindustani
- Englishbunjara
From Hindustani بنجارا / बंजारा (bañjārā), ultimately from Sanskrit वणिज्या (vaṇijyā, “trade”) + कार (kāra, “doer”).
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