bajau
See also: Bajau
Hausa
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bá.(d)ʒáu/
- (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA(key): [bə́.d͡ʒáu]
Noun
bajau m (possessed form bajan)
- (card games) A cloth which card players play on.
Adverb
bajau
- reddened
Indonesian
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Indonesian Bajau bajau.
Noun
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
- Bajau
Noun
bajau
- (precategorial) hit, strike.
Derived terms
- membajau (“hitting”)
Etymology 3
Derived from Buginese ᨓᨍᨚ (wajoʼ).
Noun
bajau
- Alternative form of Bajo.
Etymology 4
Blend of bintara + peninjau
Noun
bajau
- Acronym of bintara peninjau; an observer officer in military and police forces.
Further reading
- “bajau” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.