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Definition banyan

Etymology

From Portuguese baniano, from Arabic ????????‎ (baniy?n), from Gujarati ?????? (v??iyo, “merchant”), from Sanskrit ????? (v??ijá), from earlier ????? (va?íj, “merchant, trader”). The name appears to have been first bestowed popularly on a famous tree of this species growing near Bandar Abbas, under which the Bannians or Hindu traders settled at that port, had built a little pagoda.

Noun

banyan (plural banyans)

1. An Indian trader, merchant, cashier, or money changer.
2. A tropical Indian fig tree, Ficus benghalensis, that has many aerial roots.
3. A type of loose gown worn in India.
4. (India) A vest; an undershirt; a singlet.
5. (Britain, Naval slang, dated) A camping excursion on shore, to give a ship's crew a break from shipboard routine.

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