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Bunga River, northeastern Nigeria; Bunga bangkai, a common name in Indonesia for Amorphophallus titanum, the so-called "carrion flower" Bunga raya, the Malay name for Hibiscus rosa-sinensis, the national flower of Malaysia; Bunga, or Botija, a Caribbean musical instrument of the aerophone type; Bunga, a character from the Lion King spin-off The ...
Bunga bunga is a phrase of uncertain origin and various meanings that dates from 1910 and a name for an area of Australia dating from 1852. By 2010 the phrase had gained popularity in Italy and the international press to refer to then-Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's alleged sex parties with prostitutes, which caused a major political scandal in Italy.
In the native languages of the Philippines, betel nut chewing is known variously as buyo, bunga, hitso, or ngangà in Tagalog, Bikol, and the Visayan languages; dapiau in Ivatan; and bua, mama or maman in Ilocano; luyos in Kapampangan; pasa in Basilan; and lugos in Zamboanga; among other names. [46] [49]
Italy's supreme court on Monday overturned the acquittal of 23 people over allegations they took bribes from late prime minister Silvio Berlusconi to lie in an underage prostitution case that had ...
Brown brick bungalow with roof windows in Reedsburg, Wisconsin, U.S.. A bungalow is a small house or cottage that is single-storey, [1] sometimes with a smaller upper storey set in the roof and windows that come out from the roof, [2] and may be surrounded by wide verandas.
The original Sikh turban of the Khalsa Fauj, the Dastar Bunga. The Nihang's pharla is being covered at the tip of the turban. Dastar bunga, or turban fortress in Persian, is a style of turban used by a specific sect within the Sikhs, the Akali Nihangs (egoless immortals). As an essential part of their faith the warriors used the turban as a ...
The name ylang-ylang is the Spanish spelling of the Tagalog term for the tree, ilang-ilang - a reduplicative form of the word ilang, meaning "wilderness", alluding to the tree's natural habitat. [7] A common mistranslation is "flower of flowers". [6] The tree is also called the fragrant cananga, Macassar-oil plant, or perfume tree.
19th-century illustration. Lily of the valley (Convallaria majalis / ˌ k ɒ n v ə ˈ l ɛər i ə m ə ˈ dʒ eɪ l ɪ s /), [2] sometimes written lily-of-the-valley, [3] is a woodland flowering plant with sweetly scented, pendent, bell-shaped white flowers borne in sprays in spring.