arna

American  

[ahr-nuh] / ˈɑr nə /

noun

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

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Etymology

Origin of arna

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

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

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

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