gunia

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noun

A sack.

OriginSwahili gunia ← Iranian Persian گونی (guni) ← Urdu گنی →
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Meanings

noungunia (plural gunias)

plural gunias

  1. KenyaA sack.
    1 more example

    The girls mentioned a difference in access to work based on gender. One girl said, "A boy takes his gunia (bag) and goes in front of the shops so that he is given used and waste papers and cartons to sell and get some money while a street girl can stay the whole day without even getting something to eat.[…]

    2000 March 30, Philip L. Kilbride, Collette A. Suda, Enos Njeru, Street Children in Kenya: Voices of Children in Search of a Childhood, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN, page 62

Origin

  1. Sanskritगोणी (goṇī)
  2. Hindiगनी (ganī)
  3. Urduگنی
  4. Iranian Persianگونی (guni)
  5. Swahiligunia
  6. Englishgunia

Borrowed from Swahili gunia. Doublet of gunny.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

unagiGunaiAigunnigua
Cite this entry
APA

gunia. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gunia

MLA

“gunia.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gunia. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “gunia,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gunia.

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