bayak
Iban
Etymology
From Proto-Malayic *biawak, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bayawak.
Noun
bayak
- monitor lizard
Turkish
Etymology
From Proto-Turkic *baya (“recently”).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bɑjɑk/
Adverb
bayak
- (obsolete, dialectal) recently
Related terms
- bayağı
References
- 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