bajau

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Hausa[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /bá.(d)ʒáu/
    • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA(key): [bə́.d͡ʒáu]

Noun[edit]

bajau m (possessed form bajan)

  1. (card games) A cloth which card players play on.

Adverb[edit]

bajau

  1. reddened

Iban[edit]

Verb[edit]

bajau

  1. to rape

Indonesian[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Borrowed from Indonesian Bajau bajau.

Noun[edit]

bajau

  1. (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.
  2. (in a sense of Bajau) citizenry.
Related terms[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

Noun[edit]

bajau

  1. (precategorial) hit, strike.
Derived terms[edit]

Etymology 3[edit]

Derived from Buginese ᨓᨍᨚ (wajoʼ).

Noun[edit]

bajau

  1. Alternative form of Bajo.

Etymology 4[edit]

Blend of bintara +‎ peninjau

Noun[edit]

bajau

  1. Acronym of bintara peninjau; an observer officer in military and police forces.

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