The dingo has different names in different indigenous Australian languages, such as boolomo, dwer-da, joogoong, kal, kurpany, maliki, mirigung, noggum, papa-inura, and wantibirri.
But it turned out that the Mbabaram word for "dog" was in fact dúg, pronounced almost identically to the Australian English word (compare true cognates such as Yidiny gudaga, Dyirbal guda, Djabugay gurraa and Guugu Yimidhirr gudaa, for example).
Tidda: Means sister and can also be used when referring to female friends. Yidaki: An Aboriginal wind instrument, also known as didjeridu, a word coined by the white settlers in imitation of its sound.
Bunji: Means friend/mate. Cooee: Is actually a widely used Aboriginal word that is often unknowingly used by non Indigenous people.
Like dingo, which comes from din-gu, the Dharug name specifically for domesticated dingos (warrigal is the general term for dingos or wild dogs in Dharug).
Before European settlers came to K'gari (Fraser Island), two types of dingoes were known to the Butchulla. One was Wat'dha (the camp dingo) and the other was Wongari (the wild dingo). Wat'dha were our companions—always part of us. They helped us hunt and track, and protected us from bad spirits and the Wongari.
The names Dharug and Eora were given by linguists to refer to the inland and coastal dialects of the language. Dharug (also Dharuk, Darug, Daruk) is the traditional language of the Australian Aboriginal people in the inland areas of greater Sydney.
: canoe. broadly : a Maori seagoing craft.
'Baya' is the Sydney Aboriginal language (BB) word for 'speak'. With the RECIProcal and/or REFLexive suffix '-la' it becomes 'speak reciprocally', or 'converse'.
: an Australian clover fern (Marsilea drummondii) India : a plant (Sesbania aculeata) whose seeds are ground into meal compare daincha.
Pap(a) is also found as 'mother', mainly in Victoria. Other kinship roots (for grandparents) have been shown to have a split distribution with one root dominating in the east and one in the west for what is apparently a single proto-meaning.
/ ˈnʌl əˈnʌl ə / PHONETIC RESPELLING. ? College Level. noun Australian. an Aboriginal club or cudgel for use in hunting and war.
Koori is a term denoting an Aboriginal person of southern New South Wales or Victoria. 'Koori' is not a synonym for 'Aboriginal'. There are many other Aboriginal groups across Australia (such as Murri, Noongar, Yolngu) with which Indigenous Australians may identify themselves.
Bindi is a girl's name of Australian origin. In the Aboriginal language of Noongar, this name means "little girl" or "butterfly.” Today, this sweet name is commonly associated with Bindi Irwin, the daughter of “Crocodile Hunter” Steve Irwin. On This Page.
It is polite to say goodbye when leaving. Our word for goodbye is 'bobo' (pronounced bor bor).
A mia-mia is a temporary shelter made of bark, branches, leaves and grass used by some Indigenous Australians. The word is also used in Australian English to mean "a temporary shelter".
The Dadi Dadi or Tatitati are an Australian Aboriginal people whose traditional lands are located along the southern banks of the Murray River in Victoria Australia.
durries. A durrie is a cotton carpet from India.
Name. "Wakka" was assigned the meaning "no" by Western linguists who documented the Wakawaka language. Ethnonyms based on the duplication of the respective words for "no" were said to be markers distinguishing one tribe from another in the area, as is also the case with the adjacent Gubbi Gubbi.
English:: nickname for a person with dark or fair hair from Middle English blak 'black' (Old English blæc) or 'fair' (Old English blāc) + hed heved 'head'.
doorie. to have sex: Let's go have a doorie.
Wahroonga, in the parish of Gordon and Ku-ring-gai local government area, derives its name from an Aboriginal word meaning 'our home'. It was previously called Pearces Corner after Aaron Pierce, a timber-getter who built a slab hut on land purchased in the area in 1835.
Fire is an important part of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and features in many songs. Gurtha (or fire) is an important element in the culture of the Yolngu people of north-east Arnhem Land.