bayak

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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