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This is a list of English words derived from [[Australian Aboriginal languages]]. Some are restricted to [[Australian English]] as a whole or to certain regions of the country. Others, such as ''kangaroo'' and ''boomerang'', have become widely used in other [[List of dialects of English|varieties of English]], and some have been borrowed into other languages beyond English.
((Incomplete list|date=August 2008))

==Flora and fauna==
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* [[ballart]]
* [[barramundi]]<ref name='abc'>((cite news |title=Learn English: Borrowed Indigenous Australian words |url=https://www.abc.net.au/education/learn-english/learn-english-borrowed-aboriginal-words/8248664 |access-date=3 April 2019 |work=ABC Education |publisher=[[Australian Broadcasting Corporation]] |date=27 July 2018))</ref>
* [[bilby]]
* [[wikt:bindii|bindii]]
* [[Bogong (disambiguation)|bogong]]
* [[Australian boobook|boobook]]
* [[brigalow]]
* [[brolga]]
* [[budgerigar]]
* [[bunyip]]
* [[burdardu]]
* [[coolabah (disambiguation)|coolabah]]<ref name="abc" />
*[[Typha|cumbungi]]
* [[Cunjevoi (disambiguation)|cunjevoi]]
* [[curara]]
* [[currawong]]
*[[Nitraria billardierei|dillon bush]]
* [[dingo]]
* [[galah]]
* [[Gang-gang cockatoo|gang-gang]]
* [[Persoonia|geebung]]
* [[Gidgee (disambiguation)|gidgee]]
* [[gilgie]]
* [[gymea lily|gymea]]
* [[jarrah (tree)|jarrah]]
* [[kangaroo]]<ref>((cite web|url=http://www.australia.gov.au/about-australia/australian-story/austn-slang|title=Australian slang - a story of Australian English|access-date=30 April 2017))</ref>
* [[koala]]
* [[kookaburra]]
* [[Brachychiton|kurrajong]]
* [[kutjera]]
* [[mallee (habit)|mallee]]
* [[Corymbia calophylla|marri]]
* [[mihirung]]
* [[wikt:Mulga|mulga]]
* [[Myall]]
* [[numt]]
* [[pademelon]]
* [[potoroo]]
* [[quandong]]
* [[quokka]]
* [[quoll]]
* [[taipan]]
* [[wallaby]]
* [[wallaroo]]
* [[waratah]]<ref name="abc" />
* [[warrigal]]
* [[witchetty grub|witchetty]]
* [[wobbegong]]
* [[wombat]]
* [[Wonga (disambiguation)|wonga]]
* [[wonga-wonga]]
* [[yabby (disambiguation)|yabby]]
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==Environment==
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* [[billabong]]
* [[bombora]] (rapids–often used to describe offshore reef breaks)
* [[wikt:boondie|boondie]] (hardened clump of sand; Noongar, W.A.<ref>((Cite web|url=http://theperthfiles.blogspot.com.au/2006/04/bull-ants-boondies-bogans-and-bore.html|title=The Perth Files: Bull ants, 'boondies', bogans and bore water|date=13 April 2006))</ref>)
* [[gilgai]]
*[[Lerp (biology)|lerp]] (crystallized honeydew produced by larvae of psyllid bugs, gathered as food)
* [[min-min]] lights (ground-level lights of uncertain origin sometimes seen in remote rural Australia)
* [[willy willy]] ([[dust devil]])
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==Aboriginal culture==
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* [[Dreamtime|alcheringa]]
* bingy (pron. binji)<ref name=Morris>((cite book|title=Morris's Dictionary of Australian Words |author=Edward Ellis Morris |year=1896))</ref> belly, esp. in bingy-button=[[navel]]
* [[boomerang]]
* [[bunyip]]<ref name=Morris/>
* [[coolamon (vessel)|coolamon]] (wooden curved bowl used to carry food or baby)
* [[corroboree]]
* dilli (a bag)<ref name=Morris/> commonly, and tautologically, as "dilly-bag"
* [[djanga]]
* [[gibber]] (a stone)<ref name=Morris/> esp. in gibber plain=stony desert
* [[wikt:gin#Etymology 4|gin]] (now a racially offensive word for an Aboriginal woman)
* [[gunyah]]
* [[humpy]] (a hut)
* [[kurdaitcha]]
* [[wikt:lubra|lubra]] (now a racially offensive word for an Aboriginal woman)
* [[marn grook]]
* [[mia-mia]] (a hut)<ref name=Morris/>
* [[nulla-nulla]]
* [[turndun]]
* [[waddy]] (a wooden club), earlier, any piece of wood<ref name=Morris/>
* [[woggabaliri]]
* [[Woomera (spear-thrower)|woomera]]
* [[wurlie]] or wurley<ref name=Morris/> - a hut
* yabber or yabber-yabber (talk)<ref name=Morris/>
* yakka (doing work of any kind)<ref name=Morris/><ref>((cite news |title=Learn English: Borrowed Indigenous Australian words |url=https://www.abc.net.au/education/learn-english/learn-english-borrowed-aboriginal-words/8248664 |access-date=3 April 2019 |work=ABC Education |publisher=[[Australian Broadcasting Corporation]] |date=27 July 2018))</ref>
* [[Yara-ma-yha-who]]
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==Describing words==
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* [[Koori]] - Aboriginal people from Victoria and New South Wales
* [[cooee]]
* [[Nunga]] - Aboriginal people from South Australia 
* [[Murri (people)|Murri]] - Aboriginal people from Queensland
* [[Noongar]] - Aboriginal people from southern Western Australia
* [[Aboriginal Tasmanians|Palawa]] - Aboriginal people from Tasmania
* [[yarndi]] (slang term for [[cannabis (drug)|marijuana]])<ref>((cite web|url=https://adf.org.au/programs/indigenous-resources/yarndi-within-community/|website=[[Australian Drug Foundation]]|title=Yarndi within the community|access-date=14 January 2019))</ref>
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==Place names==
((main|List of Australian place names of Aboriginal origin))

==Names== 
* [[Kylie (name)|Kylie]] ([[Noongar language|Noongar]] word for "throwing stick")

==English words often falsely assumed to be of Australian Aboriginal origin==
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* [[bandicoot]] (from the [[Telugu Language|Telugu]], ''pandikokku'' a term originally referring to the unrelated [[bandicoot rat]])<ref>((Cite news|url=https://www.thehindu.com/books/a-tea-party-with-topiwalla-and-alice/article19777410.ece|title=A tea party with Topiwalla and Alice|last=Satpathy|first=Sumanyu|date=2017-09-30|work=The Hindu|access-date=2019-06-19|language=en-IN|issn=0971-751X))</ref>
* [[cockabully]] (from [[Māori language|Māori]] ''kokopu'')<ref>((cite web |last1=Wassilieff |first1=Maggy |title=Cockabully |url=https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/4821/cockabully |website=Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand |access-date=24 September 2021))</ref>
* [[cockatoo]] (from [[Malay language|Malay]])<ref name="OED">((cite encyclopedia|title=cockatoo|encyclopedia=Oxford English Dictionary|editor1=J. Simpson |editor2=E. Weiner |year=1989|edition=2nd|location=Oxford|publisher=Clarendon Press|isbn = 978-0-19-861186-8))</ref>
* [[didgeridoo]] (possibly from [[Irish language|Irish]] or [[Scottish Gaelic]] ''dúdaire duh'' or ''dúdaire dúth'' [both /d̪u:d̪ɪrɪ d̪u:/] "black piper" or "native piper")
* [[emu]] (from [[Arabic]], via [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]], for ''large bird'')
* [[goanna]] (corruption of the [[Taino language|Taíno]] ''iguana'')
* [[Black-necked Stork|jabiru]] (from [[Tupi–Guarani languages|Tupi–Guarani]] via [[Spanish language|Spanish]], originally referred to [[Jabiru|an American bird]])
* [[Nullarbor Plain|nullarbor]] ([[Latin]] for ''no tree'')'<ref>((cite dictionary|title=Macquarie Dictionary|edition=2nd|year=1991|publisher=Macquarie University|isbn=0-949757-63-2|page=1220|title-link=Macquarie Dictionary))</ref>
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==References==
((url|http://www.australia.gov.au/about-australia/australian-story/austn-slang |Slang - Australian Government Website))
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[[Category:Lists of English words of foreign origin|Australian]]
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