These words of Australian Aboriginal origin include some which are almost universal in the English-speaking world, such as kangaroo and boomerang. Many such words have also become loan words in other languages beyond English, while some are restricted to Australian English.

Flora and fauna

• barramundi
• bilby
• bindi
• bogong
• boobook
• brigalow
• brolga
• budgerigar
• bunyip
• coolibah
• cunjevoi
• currawong
• dingo
• galah
• gang-gang

• geebung
• gidgee
• gilgie
• gymea
• jarrah
• kangaroo
• koala
• kookaburra
• kurrajong
• mallee
• marri
• mulga
• myall
• numbat
• pademelon
• potoroo

• quandong
• quokka
• quoll
• taipan
• wallaby
• wallaroo
• waratah
• warrigal
• witchetty
• wobbegong
• wombat
• wonga
• wonga-wonga
• yabby

Environment

• billabong
• boondie A rock (Noongar, W.A.)
• gibber (a boulder)
• pindari (high ground)
• willy willy

Aboriginal culture

• boomerang
• bunyip
• coolamon
• corroboree

• gunyah
• humpy (a hut)
• lubra
• mia-mia

• nulla-nulla
• waddy (a wooden club)
• woomera
• wurlie - a hut

Describing words

• Koori
• cooee
• Murri - Aboriginal people from Queensland

• Noongar - Aboriginal people from southern Western Australia
• yabber - to talk
• yakka - work
• yarndi - marijuana

Place names

Names

• Kylie (Noongar word for "throwing stick")
• Narelle (possibly a back-formation of Sydney suburb Narellan)

Aboriginal-sounding words not of Aboriginal origin

• bandicoot : (from Telugu)
• cockatoo : (from Malay)
• didgeridoo : (onomatopoeic)
• emu : (from Arabic, via Portuguese, for large bird)

• goanna : (corruption of iguana)
• Nullarbor : (Latin for no trees)