banyan

Signification (Anglais)

1. An Indian trader, merchant, cashier, or money changer.
2. A tropical Indian fig tree, Ficus benghalensis, that has many aerial roots.
3. Various other trees of the Ficus subgenus Urostigma, especially Ficus pertusa (Central American banyan) and Ficus microcarpa (Chinese banyan or Malayan banyan).
4. A type of loose gown worn in India.
5. (India, Pakistan) A vest; an undershirt; a singlet.
6. (British, dated, slang) A camping excursion on shore, to give a ship's crew a break from shipboard routine.

Concepts

banian

banyan

figuier

marchand

négociant

Ficus benghalensis

figuier des banians

figuier des Banyans

commerçant

Synonymes

banian

banyan tree

Indian banyan

strangler fig

banian tree

East Indian fig tree

Ficus bengalensis

jersey

🇯🇪

mangrove

merchant

sweater

vest

bough

pull-over

bargat

baobab

Ficus benghalensis

businessman

cactus

🌵

ficus

indian fig

Traductions

baniano

figueira-da-índia

Indische vijgenboom

waringin

baniana

Banyanbaum

Waringinbaum

Waringin

indischer Feigenbaum

Indische vijgeboom

Ficus Benghalensis

Großkaufmann

banià

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈbæn.jən/

Étymologie (Anglais)

From Portuguese baniano, from Arabic بَنِيَان (baniyān), from Gujarati વાણિયો (vāṇiyo, “merchant”), from Sanskrit वाणिज (vāṇijá), from earlier वणिज् (vaṇíj, “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. Doublet of bunnia.