bwana
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Swahili bwana (“master”), from Arabic أَبُونَا (ʔabūnā, “our father”). Doublet of abbot.
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): /ˈbwɑːnə/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɑːnə
Noun[edit]
bwana (plural bwanas)
- (slang) Big boss, important person.
- 2005, David Foster Wallace, Consider the Lobster and Other Essays, New York: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 208:
- It is Jim C.’s custom always to say “Up Simba” in a fake-deep bwana voice as he hefts the camera to his right shoulder […]
Usage notes[edit]
Not always used as a favorable term.
Anagrams[edit]
Anguthimri[edit]
Noun[edit]
bwana
- (Mpakwithi) bream
References[edit]
- Terry Crowley, The Mpakwithi dialect of Anguthimri (1981), page 185
Chichewa[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Swahili bwana (“master”), from Arabic أَبُونَا (ʔabūnā, “our father”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
bwána class 1a (plural abwána class 2)
Italian[edit]
Noun[edit]
bwana m (invariable)
Old Sundanese[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Sanskrit भुवन (bhuvana, “the world”).
Noun[edit]
bwana
- the world
- Synonym: dunya
- c. 14th century, Astana Gede Inscription:
- ...pakena gawé rahayu pakeun heubeul jaya dina buana.
- ... should do good in order to prosper long in this world.
Descendants[edit]
- ⇒ Sundanese: ᮘᮥᮃᮔ (buana, “continent”)
Swahili[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- (abbreviation) Bw.
Etymology[edit]
From Arabic أَبُونَا (ʔabūnā, “our father”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
bwana (ma class, plural mabwana)
Coordinate terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
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