gunia

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See also: gunią

English

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Etymology

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From Swahili gunia.

Noun

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gunia (plural gunias)

  1. (Kenya) A sack.

Anagrams

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Polish

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Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
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gunia

Etymology

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Borrowed from Hungarian gúnya. Compare Russian гу́ня (gúnja).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈɡu.ɲa/
  • Rhymes: -uɲa
  • Syllabification: gu‧nia

Noun

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gunia f (diminutive guńka)

  1. (archaic) overcoat, topcoat, outercoat

Declension

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nouns

Further reading

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  • gunia in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • gunia in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Silesian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Hungarian gúnya.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈɡu.ɲa/
  • Rhymes: -uɲa
  • Syllabification: gu‧nia

Noun

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gunia f

  1. (Cieszyn Silesia, archaic) a woolen coat worn by Gorals

Further reading

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  • Barbara Podgórska, Adam Podgóski (2008) “gunia”, in Słownik gwar śląskich [A dictionary of Silesian lects], Katowice: Wydawnictwo KOS, →ISBN, page 105

Swahili

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Swahili Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

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Borrowed from Omani Arabic قُوْنِيَّة (gūniyya),[1] from Gujarati ગૂણિયું (gūṇiyũ).

Pronunciation

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  • Audio (Kenya):(file)

Noun

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gunia (ma class, plural magunia)

  1. sack (bag for commodities or items)

See also

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References

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  1. ^ 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).