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banjara

banjara is the alternative form of bunjara.

Meaning of bunjara

Noun

bunjara (plural bunjaras)

  1. (India) A wandering grain and salt merchant in the Deccan Plateau (Southern India).
    • Thirty years ago this ford was on the track of the bunjaras, and I have seen two thousand pack-bullocks cross in one night.1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘At Twenty-two’, In Black and White, Folio Society, published 2005, page 410

Proper noun capitalized: Banjara

Banjara

  1. A community usually described as nomadic people from the northwestern belt of the Indian subcontinent.

Forms of banjara

pluralbanjaras

Origin of banjara

Borrowed from Hindi बंजारा (bañjārā).

Questions about banjara

What does banjara mean?
Banjara means a community usually described as nomadic people from the northwestern belt of the Indian subcontinent.
What is banjara the alternative form of?
Banjara is the alternative form of bunjara.
What part of speech is banjara?
Banjara is a proper noun.

Words near banjara in the dictionary

  1. banj
  2. banja
  3. Banja Luka
  4. Banjaluka
  5. banjar
  6. banjara
  7. Banjara Hills
  8. banjaras
  9. Banjarbaru
  10. banjaree
  11. banjarees

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Adapted from Wiktionary: banjara (page history and authors); Banjara (page history and authors); bunjara (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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