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kobong

NOONGAR

friend

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PRONUNCIATION GUIDE

guababan; babin : friend (Salvado 1851: 260)
Babbin, koobong : Friend (Baaburgurt (Bulyen/George Eliot); Bates XII 2B, 13: 25)
Babbin, koobong : Friend (Balbuk; Bates XII 2B, 15: 26)
kūbong : pledged friendship between two men who are brothers-in-law (tribal) (Ngalbaitch; Bates XII 2B, 7a)
Babbin, koobong : Friend (Ngilgee; Bates XII 2B, 12a: 25)
Koobong, babbin : Friend (Joobaitch aka Ngoorweel; Bates XII 2B, 14: 27)
coobarng : companion or friend (Bussell 1930: 65)
couburne : totem (Hassell 1975: 231)
quabuŋ ? : totem, “friend” (Von Brandenstein 1988: 76)
kupurn : totem (Douglas 1991: 32)
kubang : friend (Dench 1994: 179)