funda

Contraction of fundamental, originating in Indian English.

funda (countable and uncountable, plural fundas or fundae or fundaes)

1. (India) Basics or fundamentals, considered as a unit.

   Get your funda correct before you submit the paper.

   What is the funda behind relativity?

   • 1992

     In my opinion, the funda is as follows:

2. (India) Understanding.
   • 1993,

     You did not have the funda to realize that the statistics is an ass.

   • 1993,

     But then, your funda is weak.

Whilst fundaes and fundae both occur as the plural of funda, fundas is far more widespread. The pluralization to fundae is by analogy to formula/formulae. The pluralization to fundas is by the simple addition of -s.

The word is frequently used in Indian quizzing circles to denote the interesting fact or concept behind a question.

• fundu

• Usenet posting by Sivakumar Ravada, prescribing fundae as the plural
• IITM lingo, accessed on 2005-05-09, prescribing fundaes as the plural
• The Fundoo Funda, some comments about the words funda and fundoo.

funda

1. third-person singular present indicative form of fundar
2. second-person singular imperative form of fundar

• IPA^(key): /ˈfʏnta/
• Rhymes: -ʏnta

From fundur +‎ -a.

funda (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative fundaði, supine fundað)

1. (intransitive) to meet, to gather

Inflected form of fundur (“meeting”).

funda

1. indefinite genitive plural of fundur

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfun.da/, [ˈfʊn.da]

funda f (genitive fundae); first declension

1. a hand-sling (contrasted with fustibalus (“a sling-staff”, “a stick sling”))

First declension.

• fundifōrmis (New Latin)
• funditor

• French: fronde
• Italian: fionda
• Spanish: honda

• funda in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• funda in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• funda in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• funda in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• funda in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

A conjugated form of fundō.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfun.daː/, [ˈfʊn.daː]

fundā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of fundō

• (Portugal, Carioca) IPA^(key): /ˈfũ.dɐ/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈfũ.da/

From Latin fundus (“bottom”).

funda

1. Feminine singular of adjective fundo.

From Latin funda (“sling”).

funda f (plural fundas)

1. sling (cloth weapon)
   • Bible, 1 Samuel 17:50

     Portanto, Davi, com uma funda e uma pedra, mostrou ser mais forte que o Filisteu, e o entregou à morte, e não havia espada na mão de Davi.

     So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and smote the Philistine, and slew him; but there was no sword in the hand of David.

2. catapult, slingshot (elastic weapon)
3. sling (hanging bandage)

• (sling (weapon)): fundíbulo, catapulta
• (catapult): estilingue, atiradeira, bodoque
• (sling (bandage)): tipóia

• fundeiro, fundibulário, fundista, fustíbalo

From French fonder, based on Romanian fund.

a funda (third-person singular present fundează, past participle fundat) 1st conj.

1. to found, set a foundation

• întemeia, înființa

• fundament
• fundație
• fund

• IPA^(key): /ˈfunda/, [ˈfũn̪d̪a]

From Latin funda.

funda f (plural fundas)

1. case, cover; wrapping
2. (Dominican Republic, slang) small bag

   Synonyms: bolsa, saco

• enfundar

See the etymology of the main entry.

funda

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of fundar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of fundar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of fundar.

funda

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of fundir.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of fundir.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of fundir.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of fundir.

• “funda” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

• Orlando Alba, Cómo hablamos los dominicanos, Santo Domingo, Amigo del Hogar, 2003. (full text)

From Ottoman Turkish فونده‎ (funda), from Greek φούντα (foúnta, “shrub; flake, fringe”) from Hellenistic φοῦνδα (phoûnda), from Latin funda (“hand-sling, net”).

funda (definite accusative fundayı, plural fundalar)

1. shrub, heath
2. (botanics) heath

• Meyer, Gustav (1892), “Türkische Studien. I. Die griechischen und romanischen Bestandtheile im Wortschatze des Osmanisch-Türkischen”, in Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historischen Classe der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften (in German), volume 128, Wien: In Commission bei F. Tempsky, page 89
• φούντα in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], 1998, by the "Triantafyllidis" Foundation.

From Proto-Nguni *-fúnda, from Proto-Bantu *-túnda.

-fúnda

1. (intransitive) to learn
2. (transitive) to read

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• -fundisa

From Proto-Nguni *-fúnda, from Proto-Bantu *-túnda.

-fúnda

1. (intransitive) to learn
2. (transitive) to study
3. (transitive) to read

• -fundisa

From Proto-Nguni [Term?], from Proto-Bantu *-kúnda.

-funda^?

1. (transitive) to swallow (food)

• C. M. Doke; B. W. Vilakazi (1972), “funda”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, →ISBN: “funda (3.9)”