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balandas

balandas is the plural of balanda.

Meaning of balanda

Noun

balanda (plural balandas or balanda)

  1. (Australian Aboriginal, Arnhem Land) A white person, a European.
    • They knew the white people of Victoria, and called them Balanda, which is nothing more than ‘Hollanders’; a name used by the Malays, from whom they received it.1845, Ludwig Leichhardt, Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia

Questions about balandas

What is balandas the plural of?
Balandas is the plural of balanda.

Words near balandas in the dictionary

  1. balancing the books
  2. balancing the sheets
  3. balancing the ticket
  4. balancings
  5. balanda
  6. balandas
  7. balander
  8. balanders
  9. balandra
  10. Balandran
  11. balandrana

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