bobato
Ternate
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [bo.ˈba.to]
Noun
bobato (Jawi بباتو)
- (obsolete) an oarsman
- (obsolete, by extension) a fighter
- (historical) a specific title during the Sultanate of Ternate: a village chief, a headman
- an administrator
References
- Frederik Sigismund Alexander de Clercq (1890) Bijdragen tot de kennis der Residentie Ternate, E.J. Brill
- Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh