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Definition of bania in English: banianounˈbʌnɪə (in India) a trader or merchant. Example sentencesExamples - As the hill stations grew, there was an expansion in trade, and it was often the much-detested banias from the plains who rushed in to avail themselves of new opportunities.
- Both communities were providing stiff competition to the patels and banias of Gujarat.
- Also indispensable in the making of Indian Opinion was Gandhi's nephew Chhaganlal, who was assigned a bania's duties of keeping the accounts and collecting the advertisements.
- The campsite favourably located next to the bania boasted bird- and frog-song, accompanied by the splashing of a gentle brook.
- Look at the subject: the milkman, the barber, the priest, the unbiquitous paan vendor, the artisan, the crafty bania.
Origin From Hindi baniyā, from Sanskrit vāṇija. |