banyan

英 ['bænjən] 美['bænjən]

畅通词汇

banyan 榕树

印度语。同bania, 商人。来自印度过去流动商贩在大榕树下修一个小神龛祈祷，兼做生意。现今这种小神龛依然遍布印度各地。

banyan: banyan: [17] Banyan originally meant ‘Hindu trader’. It is an arabization of Gujarati vāniyān ‘traders’, which comes ultimately from Sanskrit vanija ‘merchant’ (the Portuguese version, banian, produced an alternative English spelling). When European travellers first visited Bandar Abbas, a port on the Persian Gulf, they found there a pagoda which the banyans had built in the shade of a large Indian fig tree. They immediately applied the name banyan to this particular tree, and the term later widened to include all such trees.
banyan (n.): "Indian fig tree," 1630s, so called in reference to a tree on the Iranian coast of the Persian Gulf under which the Hindu merchants known as banians had built a pagoda. From Sanskrit vanija "merchant."

1. This huge banyan tree has a history of more than 400 years.: 这棵大榕树已经有四百多年的历史了.

2. Dehong in the banyan tree in all the stations in the largest.: 在德宏榕树在所有树种中站的比重最大.

3. Wear the campus dime because had the big banyan more beautiful.: 着校园一角因为有了大榕树更美了.

5. Look, Xiaoling is sitting on the grass under the big banyan tree.: 看, 小玲正坐在一棵大菩提树下的草地上.