ata ana

Laboya

Etymology

From ata (“man”) +‎ ana (“child”), literally, "children of men".

Noun

ata ana

1. (historical) slaves

   Antonym: ata madaka

2. a Laboyan social stratum of people who descend from slaves and who remain poor and uninfluential

   Synonym: (small men) ata maraha

   Antonym: ata madaka

Holonyms

• lima

References

• Geirnaert-Martin, Danielle C. (1992) “ata ana”, in The Woven Land of Lamboya. Socio-cosmic Ideas and Values in West Sumba, Eastern Indonesia (CNWS Publications; 11), Leiden: Centre of Non-Western Studies, Leiden University, page 193