funda

Contraction of fundamental, originating in Indian English.

funda (countable and uncountable, plural fundas or fundae or fundaes)

1. (India) Basics or fundamentals, considered as a unit.

   Get your funda correct before you submit the paper.

   What is the funda behind relativity?

   • 1992

     In my opinion, the funda is as follows:

2. (India) Understanding.
   • 1993,

     You did not have the funda to realize that the statistics is an ass.

   • 1993,

     But then, your funda is weak.

Whilst fundaes and fundae both occur as the plural of funda, fundas is far more widespread. The pluralization to fundae is by analogy to formula/formulae. The pluralization to fundas is by the simple addition of -s.

The word is frequently used in Indian quizzing circles to denote the interesting fact or concept behind a question.

• fundu

• Usenet posting by Sivakumar Ravada, prescribing fundae as the plural
• IITM lingo, accessed on 2005-05-09, prescribing fundaes as the plural
• The Fundoo Funda, some comments about the words funda and fundoo.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)

Learned borrowing from Late Latin funda (“bag”). Doublet of fona.

funda f (plural fundes)

1. cover, sheath

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

funda

1. inflection of fundar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “funda” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “funda”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “funda”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies , 2007 April

From Zulu -funda, from Proto-Bantu *-túnda.

funda

1. to learn
2. to study
3. to read

Attested with this meaning since the 14th century. Learned borrowing from Late Latin funda (“bag”), from Latin funda. Doublet of fonda. Compare Portuguese fonda and Spanish funda and honda.

• IPA^(key):

funda f (plural fundas)

1. case, cover

   Synonym: estoxo

   • c. 1350, Lourdes Soriano, editor, Livro de Tristan:

     Quando eles uirõ Lãça nõ no conoçerõ porque fezera el meter seu escudo em sua fonda

     When they saw Lancelot they didn't recognise him, because he ordered to put his shield inside its case

2. overalls

   Synonym: mono

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “funda”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “funda”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “funda”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “funda”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “funda”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

funda

1. inflection of fundir:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• IPA^(key): /ˈfʏnta/
• Rhymes: -ʏnta

From fundur +‎ -a.

funda (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative fundaði, supine fundað)

1. (intransitive) to meet, to gather

Inflected form of fundur (“meeting”).

funda

1. indefinite genitive plural of fundur

funda

1. to accuse

Latin Wikipedia has an article on:

funda

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Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰondʰeh₂, from *bʰendʰ- (“to bind”), whence English bind. Alternatively, a loanword from an unknown language, which may also have been the source of Ancient Greek σφενδόνη (sphendónē, “sling”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key):
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key):

funda f (genitive fundae); first declension

1. a hand-sling

   Coordinate term: fustibalus (“a sling-staff, a stick sling”)

First-declension noun.

• fundifōrmis (New Latin)
• funditor
• *fundula (diminutive) (Vulgar Latin)
  • ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *fundla (contraction)
    • ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *flunda (metathesis)
      • Asturian: flonda, fronda
      • French: fronde
        • → Italian: fronda
      • Italian: fionda
      • Sicilian: ciunna

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key):
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key):

fundā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of fundō

• “funda”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “funda”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "funda", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “funda”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “funda”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

From Proto-Bantu *-túnda.

-fúnda

1. (intransitive) to learn
2. (transitive) to read

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Borrowed from Latin funda (“sling”).

funda f (plural fundas)

1. sling (cloth weapon)
   • Bible, 1 Samuel 17:50

     Portanto, Davi, com uma funda e uma pedra, mostrou ser mais forte que o filisteu, e o entregou à morte, e não havia espada na mão de Davi.

     So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and smote the Philistine, and slew him; but there was no sword in the hand of David.

   Synonyms: fundíbulo, catapulta

2. catapult, slingshot (elastic weapon)

   Synonyms: estilingue, atiradeira, bodoque

3. sling (hanging bandage)

   Synonym: tipoia

• fundeiro, fundibulário, fundista, fustíbalo

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

funda

1. feminine singular of fundo

funda

1. inflection of fundar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative
2. inflection of fundir:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Borrowed from French fonder, based on Romanian fund.

a funda (third-person singular present fundează, past participle fundat) 1st conjugation

1. to found, set a foundation

   Synonyms: întemeia, înființa

• fundament
• fundație
• fund

From a Nguni language; compare Zulu -funda.

-fúndá (infinitive kufúndá)

1. study
2. learn

   Synonym: -dzidza

• mufundi

From Proto-Bantu *-túnda.

-fúnda

1. (intransitive) to learn
2. (transitive) to read

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• hunda (obsolete)

• IPA^(key): /ˈfunda/
• Rhymes: -unda
• Syllabification: fun‧da

Learned borrowing from Late Latin funda (“bag”).

funda f (plural fundas)

1. a case, a covering or bag used to wrap something up and protect it
2. (Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Ecuador) a bag made of paper or plastic

   Synonyms: bolsa, saco

3. (Bolivia) a female undergarment similar to a skirt

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

funda

1. inflection of fundar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

funda

1. inflection of fundir:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

• “funda”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy , 2024 December 10

• Alba, Orlando (2004) Cómo hablamos los dominicanos: un enfoque sociolingüístico‎ (overall work in Spanish), Santo Domingo: Grupo León Jimenes, →ISBN

From Proto-Bantu *-túnda.

• Audio (Kenya):

  (file)

-funda (infinitive kufunda)

1. to instruct, teach

• Verbal derivations:
  • Causative: -fundisha

From Ottoman Turkish فونده (funda), from Greek φούντα (foúnta, “shrub; flake, fringe”) from Hellenistic φοῦνδα (phoûnda), from Latin funda (“hand-sling, net”).

funda (definite accusative fundayı, plural fundalar)

1. shrub, heath
2. (botanics) heath

• Meyer, Gustav (1893) “Türkische Studien. I. Die griechischen und romanischen Bestandtheile im Wortschatze des Osmanisch-Türkischen”, in Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historischen Classe der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften (in German), volume 128, Wien: In Commission bei F. Tempsky, page 89
• φούντα, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής , Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language

From Proto-Bantu *-túnda.

-fúnda

1. (intransitive) to learn
2. (transitive) to read

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• -fundisa

From Proto-Bantu *-túnda.

-fúnda

1. (intransitive) to learn
2. (transitive) to study
3. (transitive) to read

• -fundisa

From Proto-Bantu *-kúnda.

-funda^?

1. (transitive) to swallow (food)