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vanjara

vanjara 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

Forms of vanjara

pluralvanjaras

Questions about vanjara

What is vanjara the alternative form of?
Vanjara is the alternative form of bunjara.

Words near vanjara in the dictionary

  1. vanity surgeries
  2. vanity surgery
  3. vanity table
  4. vanity tables
  5. vanityless
  6. vanjara
  7. vanjaras
  8. vanjarrah
  9. vanjarrahs
  10. Vanji
  11. Vankampen

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Adapted from Wiktionary: vanjara (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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