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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[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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