bundu

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English

Etymology

From Shona bundo (“grassland”).

Noun

bundu (plural bundus)

  1. (South Africa) A wilderness region, away from cities.
    • 1978, André Brink, Rumours of Rain, Vintage, published 2000, page 291:
      “You start thinking again: ‘It's for all you cunts down there in Pretoria we're getting blown to pieces in this bundu.’”
    • 2005, Mazo Sybil T. MaDlamini Buthelezi, African Nurse Pioneers in KwaZulu/Natal - 1920-2000, page 113:
      […] before she reached Pholela in the wintry mountainous bundus of Bulwer.

Central Dusun

Noun

bundu

  1. jack (Mangifera caesia)

Lindu

Noun

bundu

  1. product; result

Old Norse

Verb

bundu

  1. third-person plural past indicative active of binda

Shona

Noun

búndú class 5 (plural mapúndú class 6)

  1. lump
  2. knot in wood
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