An Aboriginal language of the area around Sydney, Australia, now extinct.It says the word is ‘early nineteenth century, from Dharuk.’...
The word, meaning traditional Aboriginal ceremony, is a word that derives from the Dharuk language of Port Jackson and was adopted by Europeans in the first years of white settlement.
William Dawes collected some Dharuk and the Dharuk descendants have learnt what they can and the same thing has happened with Awabakal.