bundu
See also: Bundu
English edit
Etymology edit
From Shona bundo (“grassland”).
Noun edit
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 edit
Noun edit
bundu
Lindu edit
Noun edit
bundu
Old Norse edit
Verb edit
bundu
Shona edit
Noun edit
búndú class 5 (plural mapúndú class 6)
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