gunia

See also: gunią

English

Etymology

From Swahili gunia.

Noun

gunia (plural gunias)

  1. (Kenya) A sack.

Anagrams

Polish
gunia

Etymology

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

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

Noun

gunia f (diminutive guńka)

  1. (archaic) overcoat, topcoat, outercoat

Declension
Declension of gunia
singular plural
nominative gunia gunie
genitive guni guni/guń
dative guni guniom
accusative gunię gunie
instrumental gunią guniami
locative guni guniach
vocative gunio gunie
nouns

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

Silesian

Etymology

Borrowed from Hungarian gúnya.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈɡuɲa/
  • Rhymes: -uɲa
  • Syllabification: gu‧nia

Noun

gunia f

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

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

Swahili

Etymology

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

Pronunciation
  • Audio (Kenya)(file)

Noun

gunia (ma class, plural magunia)

  1. sack (bag for commodities or items)

See also

References
  1. Brook, Zev (2022) “Which Arabic Dialect Are Swahili Words From?”, in Studia Orientalia Electronica‎, 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).”
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