bajau

See also: Bajau

Hausa

Pronunciation

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

Noun

bajau m (possessed form bajan)

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

Adverb

bajau

  1. reddened

Iban

Verb

bajau

  1. to rape

Indonesian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Indonesian Bajau bajau.

Noun

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

Etymology 2

Noun

bajau

  1. (precategorial) hit, strike
Derived terms
  • membajau (“hitting”)

Etymology 3

Derived from Buginese ᨓᨍᨚ (wajoʼ).

Noun

bajau

  1. alternative form of Bajo

Etymology 4

Blend of bintara +‎ peninjau

Noun

bajau

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

Further reading

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