bundu
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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
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[edit]bundu
Old Norse
[edit]Verb
[edit]bundu
Shona
[edit]Noun
[edit]búndú class 5 (plural mapúndú class 6)
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