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• a variation of Aranda.

Arunta

American  

[uh-ruhn-tuh] / əˈrʌn tə /

noun

• Aruntas,
  plural
• Arunta
  plural

1. Aranda.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• Arunta
  plural
• Aruntas
  plural

Example Sentences

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Arunta Aruntas

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2015

Until 1936, Albert Namatjira, a husky black member of the Arunta tribe in the remote bush country of central Australia, was a camel driver.

From Time Magazine Archive

Among the best observers of the Arunta tribes, for instance, some hold that they have no conception of God, others that they are constantly thinking about God.

From Five Stages of Greek Religion by Gilbert Murray

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

From Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Andrew Lang

It enables us to go back to Semang totemism as an example of primitive kinless society, and forward to Arunta totemism as an example of early development therefrom.

From Folklore as an Historical Science by George Laurence Gomme

Still, even allowing for this, it remains true that for a friendly ghost the proper place is the grave and not the homes of the living, and accordingly the Aruntas with cries of Wah!

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various

For a like reason perhaps the name of the dead must among the Aruntas not be uttered, nor the grave approached, by certain classes of kinsmen.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various