Wiktionary

bayak

Iban edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Malayic *biawak, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bayawak.

Noun edit

bayak

  1. monitor lizard

Turkish edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Turkic *baya (“recently”).[1]

Pronunciation edit

Adverb edit

bayak

  1. (obsolete, dialectal) recently

Related terms edit

References edit

  1. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*bAja”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
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