bunjara

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Etymology

From Hindustani بنجارا / बंजारा (bañjārā), ultimately from Sanskrit वणिज्या (vaṇijyā, trade) + कार (kāra, doer).

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Noun

bunjara (plural bunjaras)

  1. (India) A wandering grain and salt merchant in the Deccan Plateau.
    • 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘At Twenty-two’, In Black and White, Folio Society, published 2005, page 410:
      Thirty years ago this ford was on the track of the bunjaras, and I have seen two thousand pack-bullocks cross in one night.