banyan: [17] Banyan originally meant ‘Hindu trader’. It is an arabization of Gujarati vāniyān ‘traders’, which comes ultimately from Sanskrit vanija ‘merchant’ (the Portuguese version, banian, produced an alternative English spelling). When European travellers first visited Bandar Abbas, a port on the Persian Gulf, they found there a pagoda which the banyans had built in the shade of a large Indian fig tree. They immediately applied the name banyan to this particular tree, and the term later widened to include all such trees.
banyan (n.)
"Indian fig tree," 1630s, so called in reference to a tree on the Iranian coast of the Persian Gulf under which the Hindu merchants known as banians had built a pagoda. From Sanskrit vanija "merchant."
雙語例句
1. This huge banyan tree has a history of more than 400 years.
這棵大榕樹已經有四百多年的歷史了.
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2. Dehong in the banyan tree in all the stations in the largest.
在德宏榕樹在所有樹種中站的比重最大.
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3. Wear the campus dime because had the big banyan more beautiful.
著校園一角因為有了大榕樹更美了.
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4. A large banyan tree may look like a forest.
大型的榕樹看起來象一片樹林.
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5. Look, Xiaoling is sitting on the grass under the big banyan tree.