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  • noun India A merchant or trader.

Etymologies

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From Hindi, from Gujarati

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Examples

  • The bunnia chattered like an outraged ape; but King, the person most entitled to be angry, actually apologized!

    In The Time Of Light dj barber 2010

  • A Northerner who did not seem to understand Punjabi almost cost King his balance as he thrust broad shoulders between him and the bunnia.

    In The Time Of Light dj barber 2010

  • Punjabi almost cost King his balance as he thrust broad shoulders between him and the bunnia.

    King of the Khyber Rifles Talbot Mundy 1909

  • He was with a Muhammadan bunnia, and was dressed to resemble one himself.

    Hira Singh : when India came to fight in Flanders Talbot Mundy 1909

  • The bunnia chattered like an outraged ape; but King, the person most entitled to be angry, actually apologized!

    King of the Khyber Rifles Talbot Mundy 1909

  • Simla Bazar in his morning rides, and played with the monkey belonging to Ditta Mull, the _bunnia_, and listened, as a child listens, to all the stray talk about this new freak of the _Lord

    The Kipling Reader Selections from the Books of Rudyard Kipling Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • What quarrel had the landholder with you, _bunnia?

    Soldiers Three Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • Oh, _bunnia, _ this shall be told for years against you!

    Soldiers Three Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • I dare not again take the law into my own hands, and speak to the seal-cutter; for certain am I that, not only would Suddhoo disbelieve me, but this step would end in the poisoning of Janoo, who is bound hand and foot by her debt to the _bunnia_.

    Indian Tales Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • I dare not tell, do anything, or get anything done, because I am in debt to Bhagwan Dass the bunnia for two gold rings and a heavy anklet.

    Indian Tales Rudyard Kipling 1900

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