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ban·yan    Audio Help   [ban-yuhn] Pronunciation Key
–noun
1.Also called banyan tree. an East Indian fig tree, Ficus benghalensis, of the mulberry family, having branches that send out adventitious roots to the ground and sometimes cause the tree to spread over a wide area.
2.Also, bania, baniya. (in India)
a.a Hindu trader or merchant of a particular caste, the rules of which forbid eating flesh.
b.a loose shirt, jacket, or gown.
Also, banian.


[Origin: 1590–1600; < Pg (perh. < Ar) < Gujarati vāṇiyo (sing.) or vāṇiyā (pl.) member of the merchant caste (cf. Prakrit vāṇiaya, Skt vāṇija trader); the tree is said to have taken its name from a particular tree of the species near which merchants had built a booth; source of final nasal uncert.]
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ban·yan also ban·ian    Audio Help   (bān'yən)  Pronunciation Key 
n.   A tropical Indian fig tree (Ficus benghalensis), often widely spreading because of the many aerial roots that descend from the branches and develop into additional trunks. It is planted for ornament and shade.


[Short for banyan tree, merchants' tree, from Portuguese banian, Hindu merchant, from Gujarati vāṇiyo, from Sanskrit vāṇijaḥ; see wen-1 in Indo-European roots.]

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banyan 
"Indian fig tree," 1634, so called in allusion to a tree on the Iranian coast of the Persian Gulf under which the Hindu merchants known as banians had built a pagoda. From Skt. vanija "merchant."

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banyan

noun
1. East Indian tree that puts out aerial shoots that grow down into the soil forming additional trunks 
2. a loose fitting jacket; originally worn in India 

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banyan [ˈbӕnjən] noun
a tree that grows on wet land, with branches that have hanging roots that grow down and start new trunks
Arabic: شَجَرَةُ الأثاب: تينُ البِغال
Chinese (Simplified): 榕树,菩提树
Chinese (Traditional): 榕樹,菩提樹
Czech: banyán
Danish: banyantræ
Estonian: bengali viigipuu
Finnish: banianpuu
French: banian
German: indischer Feigenbaum
Greek: είδος φίκου που ευδοκιμεί σε υγρά εδάφη
Hungarian: indiai fügefa
Icelandic: fíkjutré
Indonesian: beringin
Italian: baniano
Japanese: ベンガルぼだい樹
Korean: 반얀나무
Latvian: banjans
Lithuanian: bengalinis fikusas
Norwegian: banyantre, indisk fikentre
Polish: !!!removed!!!
Portuguese (Brazil): bânia
Portuguese (Portugal): árvore
Romanian: smochin de India
Russian: баньян
Slovak: banyan
Slovenian: banjan
Spanish: higuera de Bengala
Swedish: banian, banyan
Turkish: Hint inciri
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Banyan company
A personal computer networking company, best known for its "Vines" products for local area networks.
Address: Westborough MA, USA.
[More info?]
(1995-03-01)

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banyan

Ban"ian\, n. [Skr. banij merchant. The tree was so named by the English, because used as a market place by the merchants.]

1. A Hindoo trader, merchant, cashier, or money changer. [Written also banyan.]

2. A man's loose gown, like that worn by the Banians.

3. (Bot.) The Indian fig. See Banyan.

Banian days (Naut.), days in which the sailors have no flesh meat served out to them. This use seems to be borrowed from the Banians or Banya race, who eat no flesh.

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