Waratah is the Aboriginal word for 'Beautiful' -how they got this name is no surprise.
kesalul - I love you.
In 1797 Isaac Nichols (1770-1819) received a land grant in Concord which he named Yaralla, an Aboriginal word believed to mean 'camp' or 'home'. Nichols, who had the distinction of becoming Australia's first Postmaster in 1810, established an extensive farm and orchard on the property.
Overall there are many common words in Noongar, for example: kaya= hello, moort = family, boodja = country and yongka = kangaroo. These words are used every day but they sound slightly different from region to region.
"Aborigine"
'Aborigine' is a noun for an Aboriginal person (male or female).
Tidda: Used widely across Aboriginal Australia, “tidda” means “sister”. The term is also used for female friends.
Julunggul. Another major Aboriginal goddess is Julunggul, also known as the Rainbow Serpent. Once the world existed in the Dreamtime, she came down from heaven and brought water and taught the right conduct to the human race.
Some languages of south-east Australia (parts of New South Wales and Victoria) had a word - coorie, kory, kuri, kooli, koole - which meant 'person' or 'people'.
an Aboriginal club or cudgel for use in hunting and war.
The name is an Anglicisation of the traditional Aboriginal name 'Malu', meaning storm, thunder or lightning. When thunder rolled across Country, Aboriginal people heard the deep, roaring voice of the Ancestral being Daramulan.
Walan and Miya are Wiradjuri words meaning 'strong together'.
About the Aboriginal place names and meanings. Muru View (Muru – meaning path in Darug) is an interactive data visualisation drawing from the State Library of New South Wales Indigenous language collections.
Mara means 'hands' in the Djabugay language.
Kanyini is an important term used by a number of language groups in central Australia, including Pitjantjatjara and Pintubi/Luritja. Kanyini can be translated as "to have, to hold and to care".
Bora is an initiation ceremony of the Aboriginal people of Eastern Australia. The word "bora" also refers to the site on which the initiation is performed. At such a site, boys, having reached puberty, achieve the status of men.
Koori (also spelt koorie, goori or goorie) is a demonym for Aboriginal Australians from a region that approximately corresponds to southern New South Wales and Victoria. The word derives from the Indigenous language Awabakal.
The word 'gula' means 'no water', referring to the observation that koalas don't drink water. This has been anglicised to 'koala'.
“Bondi” or “Boondi” is an aboriginal word meaning “water breaking over rocks” or “noise of water breaking over rocks.” The Gadigal, who witnessed the arrival of the First Fleet, recorded their impressions of the Europeans by engraving a fully-rigged ship at Bellevue Hill just outside Waverley.
Assimilationist terms such as 'full-blood,' 'half-caste' and 'quarter-caste' are extremely offensive and should never be used when referring to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
Mimis (or Mimih spirits) are fairy-like beings of Arnhem Land in the folklore of the Aboriginal Australians of northern Australia. They are described as having extremely thin and elongated bodies, so thin as to be in danger of breaking in case of a high wind.
'Gal' means people, so the Gadigal literally means the people of Cadi. The name Cadi comes from the grass tree species Xanthorrhoea, a native plant that local Aboriginal communities would make sections of spear shaft from the stems and glue together with the resin.
Wanna is a Wirangu word for Sea, and Munda means Earth. The wisdom of Wanna Munda is shared in local schools by Aboriginal artist and author Susan Betts.
Eingana is a creator goddess in Australian Aboriginal mythology (specifically: Jawoyn). Otherwise known as the "Dreamtime Snake", she is the mother of all water animals and humans. She is a snake goddess of death who lives in the Dreamtime.
In the Seven Sisters story in Aboriginal Australia, the group of stars are Napaljarri sisters from one skin group. In the Warlpiri story of this Jukurrpa, the sisters are often represented carrying the Jampijinpa man Wardilyka, who is in love with the women.