bajau
See also: Bajau
Hausa edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bajau m (possessed form bajan)
- (card games) A cloth which card players play on.
Adverb edit
bajau
Iban edit
Verb edit
bajau
- to rape
Indonesian edit
Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from Indonesian Bajau bajau.
Noun edit
bajau
- (anthropology) a group of people who lives on boats, inhabit the seawater or strait between the east coast of Sumatra and Kalimantan (known as Riau Islands; specifically the Bajau island), and also in some part of Sulawesi and Flores seawater.
- (in a sense of Bajau) citizenry.
Related terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
bajau
- (precategorial) hit, strike.
Derived terms edit
- membajau (“hitting”)
Etymology 3 edit
Derived from Buginese ᨓᨍᨚ (wajoʼ).
Noun edit
bajau
- Alternative form of Bajo.
Etymology 4 edit
Noun edit
bajau
- Acronym of bintara peninjau; an observer officer in military and police forces.
Further reading edit
- “bajau” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.