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English
Etymology
From Shona bundo (“grassland”).
Noun
bundu (plural bundus)
- (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
- jack (Mangifera caesia)
Lindu
Noun
bundu
- product; result
Old Norse
Verb
bundu
- third-person plural past indicative active of binda
Shona
Noun
búndú class 5 (plural mapúndú class 6)
- lump
- knot in wood