name
Bawaka
bah-WAH-kah
bɑˈwɑːkɑListen
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Syllable breakdown
Bawaka
Name meaning and origin
- Origin
- Yolngu (Australia)
- Meaning
- a Yolngu name connected to the homeland country of Bawaka on the coast of northeastern Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory of Australia; in Yolngu culture country is a sentient, living entity and a person's name can invoke a specific ancestral landscape as both a location and a spiritual inheritance; Bawaka is associated with the saltwater clan estates and the Yirritja moiety knowledge systems that govern relationships between people, country, and the Dreaming narratives of creation
- Gender
- unisex
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