bunder (pluralbunders)
- A type ofsurf boat used inIndia.
- Synonym:bunder boat
Borrowed fromDutchbunder.
bunder (pluralbunders)
- A unit of measurement for landarea used in theLow Countries.
- Synonym:hectare
Chinese Pidgin English
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bunder
- rumour
- Gow, W. S. P. (1924)Gow’s Guide to Shanghai, 1924: A Complete, Concise and Accurate Handbook of the City and District, Especially Compiled for the Use of Tourists and Commercial Visitors to the Far East, Shanghai, page104: “Bunder: Gossip; Rumour (“information” picked up on the Bund) also sometimes, canard; slander.”
FromMiddle Dutchbonder, withepenthesis of-d- afterliquid consonants (for which comparedonder anddaalder) fromOld Dutchbunra, fromMedieval Latinbānnarium,bunnārium (compareEnglishbunarium), derived frombonna,bodina, which possibly ultimately derive from aGaulish reflex ofProto-Celtic*bundos.
bunder n (pluralbunders)
- a unit of measurement forarea, ahectare
- Synonym:hectare
- (historical) an obsolete unit of measurement for land area
Akin toOld Javanesebuntĕr.
bunder
- round
bunder (Sundanese scriptᮘᮥᮔ᮪ᮓᮨᮁ)
- circular
- round
bunder on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedianl