gunia

English edit

Etymology edit

From Swahili gunia.

Noun edit

gunia (plural gunias)

(Kenya) A sack.

Anagrams edit

Gunai, nigua, unagi

Polish edit

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

gunia

gunia

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Hungarian gúnya. Compare Russian гу́ня (gúnja).

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /ˈɡu.ɲa/
Rhymes: -uɲa
Syllabification: gu‧nia

Noun edit

gunia f (diminutive guńka)

(archaic) overcoat, topcoat, outercoat

Declension edit

Declension of gunia

	singular	plural
nominative	gunia	gunie
genitive	guni	guni/guń
dative	guni	guniom
accusative	gunię	gunie
instrumental	gunią	guniami
locative	guni	guniach
vocative	gunio	gunie

Related terms edit

nouns

Further reading edit

gunia in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
gunia in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Silesian edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Hungarian gúnya.

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /ˈɡuɲa/
Rhymes: -uɲa
Syllabification: gu‧nia

Noun edit

gunia f

(Cieszyn Silesia, archaic) a woolen coat worn by Gorals

Further reading edit

Barbara Podgórska, Adam Podgóski (2008) “gunia”, in Słownik gwar śląskich [A dictionary of Silesian lects], Katowice: Wydawnictwo KOS, →ISBN, page 105

Swahili edit

Swahili Wikipedia has an article on:

gunia

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Omani Arabic قُوْنِيَّة (gūniyya),^[1] from Gujarati ગૂણિયું (gūṇiyũ).

Pronunciation edit

Audio (Kenya) (file)

Noun edit

gunia (ma class, plural magunia)

sack (bag for commodities or items)

See also edit

mfuko (“bag”)

References edit

^ Brook, Zev (2022) “Which Arabic Dialect Are Swahili Words From?”, in Studia Orientalia Electronica‎^[1], volume 10, number 1, page 4 of 1-10: “Whatever the exact realization, /g/ in the donor dialect was clearly somewhat palatal and equated with the native Swahili phoneme /ɟ ~ dʒ/ by Africans. Two notable exceptions are gari ‘car’ (from OAr gāri) and gunia ‘sack’ (from OAr gūnyje norm. gūnīye).”

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