arna

[ ahr-nuh ]

noun

1. (in India) the wild water buffalo, now endangered.

Word History and Origins

Origin of arna¹

First recorded in 1800–10; from Hindi arnā, from Sanskrit áraṇa “distant, foreign”; cognate with Bengali arṇā, Nepali arnu “wild buffalo”; perhaps akin to Greek állos, Latin alius “other”; else ( def )

Example Sentences

I think of Arna Bontemps recalling the Watts of his childhood in the 1931 novel “God Sends Sunday.”

From Los Angeles Times

On one of her trips, Arna Cohen of Bowie came across a specialty food store that devoted an entire aisle to that most acquired of tastes: black licorice.

From Washington Post

Wrote Arna: “Score! My husband and I love black licorice — though he likes the horrible salty stuff. I loaded up on a wide variety and happily packed it in my carry-on.”

From Washington Post

Wrote Arna: “He replaced it in my bag and sent me on my way. All I can imagine is that it looked like plastic explosives or something on the X-ray.”

From Washington Post

A far younger Zubeidi appears in the archival footage of “Arna’s Children,” a 2004 documentary about a children’s theater founded in the Jenin refugee camp in the late 1980s by Arna Mer-Khamis, an Israeli Jewish activist who married a Palestinian and supported the Palestinian cause.

From Seattle Times