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| Bundjalung | English | Category | Dialect | ||
| ngubar-ngubar | daily ; every day | time | Middle Clarence | [more] | |
| numgirbu | daily ; every day | time | Middle Clarence | [more] | |
| dahmbar | damper ; bread | food | Middle Clarence | [more] | |
| numa- | dance | Middle Clarence | [more] | ||
| jan.gar ba- | dance ; leg-corroboree | language | Middle Clarence | [more] | |
| yawahr ngahri- | dance a corroboree | language | Middle Clarence | [more] | |
| jangar ba- | dance the leg shaking corroboree ; leg shaking corroboree, dance the | language | Middle Clarence, Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | |
| ngahrindi- | dance while holding something | Middle Clarence | [more] | ||
| ngahrin | dancing ; rough (of water) | natural_environment | Middle Clarence | [more] | |
| ngahribih | dancing ground | location | Copmanhurs | [more] | |
| ngahri-jagun | dancing ground | location | Lower Richmond | [more] | |
| ngabuwa | dark | plant | Lower Richmond | [more] | |
| nguh | dark (of hole or cave) | natural_environment | Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | |
| jagabar | dark ; black | colour | Middle Clarence, Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | |
| duwan, duwan-duwan | dark ; darkness ; black | colour | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | |
| nalu | dark ; night ; midnight | time | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | |
| ngalu, ngalu(h) | dark ; night(time) (Gn) ; night ; darkness | time | Lower Richmond, Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | |
| ngaguwan- | dark, become ; black, become ; night, become | natural_environment | Middle Clarence | [more] | |
| mahgamgan | daughter | people | Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | |
| mudjumdjargan | daughter | people | Middle Clarence | [more] | |
| mudjumgirgan | daughter | people | Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | |
| muyumdjargan | daughter | people | Lower Richmond | [more] | |
| jabun | daughter ; girl | people | Middle Clarence, Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | |
| mudjumgan, muyumgan | daughter ; girl | people | Middle Clarence | [more] | |
| muyumgan | daughter ; niece (woman's sister's daughter or male's brother's daughter) | people | Gold Coast Tweed, Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | |
| bugahygan | daughter-in-law | people | Middle Clarence | [more] | |
| mulgan | dawn | time | Middle Clarence | [more] | |
| wudjir(bu) | dawn ; (first) daylight ; daylight (first) | time | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | |
| dihlbi | dawn ; daybreak | time | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | |
| mulagan-mulagan | dawn ; daybreak | time | Middle Clarence | [more] | |
| dihlbi-dihlbi | dawn, very early | time | Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | |
| bargan, baragan, bargahny | day | time | Copmanhurs | [more] | |
| danggahl | day | time | Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | |
| mudju | day | natural_environment | Middle Clarence | [more] | |
| muna(h) | day | natural_environment | Lower Richmond | [more] | |
| numgur (namgar, namgur?) | day | time | Lower Richmond | [more] | |
| barabang | day ; daybreak ; dawn | time | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | |
| nyanggay | day ; daytime ; sun time ; hot/warm time ; heat from sun | time | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | |
| numgir | day ; midday ; daytime ; daylight | natural_environment | Gold Coast Tweed, Middle Clarence, Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | |
| ngubuwardjang | day after tomorrow | time | Middle Clarence | [more] | |
| ngubuwarbu | day before yesterday | location | Middle Clarence | [more] | |
| budjaru-budjaru | daybreak | time | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | |
| budjur-budjur | daybreak | time | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | |
| namgir | daylight | natural_environment | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | |
| wudjir, wudjirah(bu) | daylight ; dawn | time | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | |
| balahn | dead | Middle Clarence | [more] | ||
| balahn.gan | dead | Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | ||
| ban.gehn | dead | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | ||
| dabalehn | dead | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | ||
| dahba-, dahbalehn | dead | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | ||
| galang | dead | Lower Richmond | [more] | ||
| gilang | dead | Gold Coast Tweed, Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | ||
| gilang, gilangan, gilang-wehn (?) | dead | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | ||
| yuban, yubany | dead | Lower Richmond | [more] | ||
| yuhban | dead | time | Lower Richmond | [more] | |
| nguru wandehn | dead person's spirit ; spirit ; person recently deceased | language | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | |
| dawargan, dawaragan | dead woman ; ghost, female | language | Gold Coast Tweed, Lower Richmond, Middle Clarence, Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | |
| binang guny | deaf | senses | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | |
| gubigal | deaf | senses | Lower Richmond | [more] | |
| guwanggum | deaf | body_part | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | |
| wangalbang | deaf | senses | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | |
| wangalgir | deaf | senses | Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | |
| wubi | deaf | body_part | Lower Richmond | [more] | |
| wuhbi | deaf | senses | Middle Clarence, Condamine Upper Clarence | [more] | |
| jibany | deaf (of one who does not want to hear) | body_part | Lower Richmond | [more] | |
| ganngah-djam | deaf ; unhearing | body_part | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | |
| wangal, wangam | deaf ; unhearing | senses | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | |
| binangah-djam, binangahmang | deaf ; weak ears ; weak hearing | body_part | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | |
| wanggur | deaf, (physically) | body_part | Lower Richmond | [more] | |
| ban.gehn | death | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | ||
| wuhrbay | death ; dead | Copmanhurs | [more] | ||
| gulgan-gulgan | death adder | reptile | Lower Richmond | [more] | |
| manduhr-gam, mandulgam, mandulgum | death adder | reptile | All | [more] | |
| mundjeralgan, munulgum, mandulgam, mandulgum, manduhr-gam, munduhrgam | death adder | reptile | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | |
| mundulgam | death adder | reptile | All | [more] | |
| mundulguhm(?) | death adder | reptile | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | |
| munulgum | death adder | reptile | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | |
| nunduhrgam | death adder | reptile | All | [more] | |
| nyindumba | death adder | reptile | Gold Coast Tweed | [more] | |
| jambin | death adder ; adder, death | reptile | Lower Richmond | [more] |
