guuguubarra

Wiradjuri

Alternative forms

• guguburra

Etymology

Onomatopoeic of its call.

Noun

guuguubarra

1. kookaburra
   • 1904, R. H. Mathews, “The Wiradyuri and other languages of New South Wales”, in The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, volume 34:

     Laughing jackass .... guguburra.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Descendants

• → English: kookaburra