Arunta

[ uh-ruhn-tuh ]

noun

, plural A·run·tas, (especially collectively) A·run·ta.

1. Aranda.

Example Sentences

Quine articulated the indeterminacy of translation thesis by using a word in the unknown language of the Arunta Aboriginal tribe.

From New York Times

The frigate Arunta passed through the South China Sea with an Australian navy supply ship two weeks ago.

From Wall Street Journal

The rite of initiation is a curious echo of the Engwura ceremony of the Arunta tribe in Central Australia as described by Messrs. Spencer and Gillen.

From Project Gutenberg

But they do not tell us whether the Arunta belief includes the sanction, by Twangirika, of morality.

From Project Gutenberg

The Arunta nation, however, cultivates an additional myth, namely that the primal ancestors, when they sank into the ground, left behind them certain oval stone slabs, with archaic markings, called churinga nanja, or “sacred things of the nanja.”

From Project Gutenberg