List of English words of Australian Aboriginal origin

Flora and fauna

• ballart
• barramundi
• bilby
• bogong
• boobook
• brigalow
• brolga
• budgerigar
• bunyip
• burdardu
• coolabah
• cunjevoi
• curara
• currawong
• dingo
• galah
• gang-gang
• geebung
• gidgee
• gilgie
• gymea
• jarrah
• kangaroo
• koala
• kookaburra
• kurrajong
• kutjera
• mallee
• marri
• mihirung
• myall
• numt
• pademelon
• potoroo
• quandong
• quokka
• quoll
• taipan
• wallaby
• wallaroo
• waratah
• warrigal
• witchetty
• wobbegong
• wombat
• wonga
• wonga-wonga
• yabby

  Environment

• billabong
• bombora
• gilgai
• min-min lights
• willy willy

  Aboriginal culture

• alcheringa
• boomerang
• bunyips
• coolamon
• corroboree
• djanga
• gunyah
• humpy
• kurdaitcha
• marn grook
• mia-mia
• nulla-nulla
• turndun
• waddy
• woggabaliri
• woomera
• wurlie - a hut
• Yara-ma-yha-who

  Describing words

• Koori - Aboriginal people from Victoria and New South Wales
• cooee
• Nunga - Aboriginal people from South Australia
• Murri - Aboriginal people from Queensland
• Noongar - Aboriginal people from southern Western Australia
• Palawa - Aboriginal people from Tasmania
• - to talk
• - work
• yarndi

  Place names

Names

• Kylie

  English words often falsely assumed to be of Australian Aboriginal origin

• bandicoot
• cockabully
• cockatoo
• didgeridoo
• emu
• goanna
• jabiru
• nullarbor