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."
双语例句
1. This huge banyan tree has a history of more than 400 years.
这棵大榕树已经有四百多年的历史了.
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2. Dehong in the banyan tree in all the stations in the largest.
在德宏榕树在所有树种中站的比重最大.
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3. Wear the campus dime because had the big banyan more beautiful.
着校园一角因为有了大榕树更美了.
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4. A large banyan tree may look like a forest.
大型的榕树看起来象一片树林.
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5. Look, Xiaoling is sitting on the grass under the big banyan tree.