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ballanda

ballanda is the alternative form 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

Forms of ballanda

pluralballandas

Questions about ballanda

What is ballanda the alternative form of?
Ballanda is the alternative form of balanda.

Words near ballanda in the dictionary

  1. ballan wrasses
  2. ballance
  3. ballanced
  4. ballances
  5. ballancing
  6. ballanda
  7. ballandas
  8. ballander
  9. ballanders
  10. Ballangeich
  11. ballans

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