gunia
See also: gunią
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Swahili gunia, from Omani Arabic قُوْنِيَّة (gūniyya). Doublet of gunny.
Noun
[edit]gunia (plural gunias)
- (Kenya) A sack.
- 2000 March 30, Philip L. Kilbride, Collette A. Suda, Enos Njeru, Street Children in Kenya: Voices of Children in Search of a Childhood[2], Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN, page 62:
- The girls mentioned a difference in access to work based on gender. One girl said, "A boy takes his gunia (bag) and goes in front of the shops so that he is given used and waste papers and cartons to sell and get some money while a street girl can stay the whole day without even getting something to eat. […]
Anagrams
[edit]Polish
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Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Hungarian gúnya. Compare Russian гу́ня (gúnja).
Pronunciation
[edit]- Rhymes: -uɲa
- Syllabification: gu‧nia
Noun
[edit]gunia f (diminutive guńka)
Declension
[edit]Declension of gunia
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- gunia in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- gunia in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Izydor Kopernicki (1875), “gunia”, in “Spostrzeżenia nad właściwościami językowémi w mowie Górali Bieskidowych z dodatkiem słowniczka wyrazów góralskich”, in Rozprawy i Sprawozdania z Posiedzeń Wydziału Filologicznego Akademii Umiejętności (I), volume 3, Kraków: Akademia Umiejętności, page 370
- Roman Zawiliński (1880), “guńa”, in “Gwara brzezińska w pow. ropczyckim”, in Rozprawy i Sprawozdania z Posiedzeń Wydziału Filologicznego Akademii Umiejętności (I) (in Polish), volume 8, Krakow: Akademia Umiejętności, page 228
Silesian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Hungarian gúnya.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]gunia f
Further reading
[edit]- Barbara Podgórska; Adam Podgóski (2008), “gunia”, in Słownik gwar śląskich [A dictionary of Silesian dialects] (in Polish), Katowice: Wydawnictwo KOS, →ISBN, page 105
Swahili
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Omani Arabic قُوْنِيَّة (gūniyya),[1] from Gujarati ગૂણિયું (gūṇiyũ).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]gunia class V (plural magunia class VI)
- 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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