Laboya

English

Alternative forms

• Lamboya

Etymology

From Laboya Laboya, from the de-prenasalization of earlier Lamboya.

Proper noun

Laboya

1. An Austronesian language spoken in the Sumba island in eastern Indonesia.
   • 1987, Danielle Geirnaert, “Hunt Wild Pig and Grow Rice: On Food Exchanges and Values in Laboya, West Sumba (Eastern Indonesia)”, in Rob de Ridder, Jan A. J. Karremans, editors, The Leiden Tradition in Structural Anthropology: Essays in Honour of P.E. de Josselin de Jong, Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill Publishers, →ISBN, page 121:

     Moro in Laboya language means "Owner, master". The "Master of the feast" is a translation of the Indonesian "Tuan Pesta", a term which West Sumbanese use when they speak Indonesian. When speaking Laboya, different terms are used, according to the type of feast which is given.

   • 2017, Cynthia T. Fowler, chapter 3, in Biosocial Synchrony on Sumba: Multispecies Relationships and Environmental Variations in Indonesia, London: Lexington Books, →ISBN, page 48:

     For example, in the Laboya language, which is spoken by a community who are neighbors of the Kodi in western Sumba, nyale is the word for "seaworms" while nare refers to an inedible kind of seaworm that Laboya people say causes an itchy reaction if eaten.

Translations

language

• Indonesian: Lamboya

Noun

Laboya pl (plural only)

1. The speakers of the Laboya language.
   • 1987, Danielle Geirnaert, “Hunt Wild Pig and Grow Rice: On Food Exchanges and Values in Laboya, West Sumba (Eastern Indonesia)”, in Rob de Ridder, Jan A. J. Karremans, editors, The Leiden Tradition in Structural Anthropology: Essays in Honour of P.E. de Josselin de Jong, Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill Publishers, →ISBN, page 115:

     Unlike Westerners, the Laboya prize animal fat more highly than the lean parts of the flesh, both in pigs and in buffalos.

   • 1992, Danielle C. Geirnaert-Martin, The Woven Land of Laboya: Socio-cosmic Ideas and Values in West Sumba, Eastern Indonesia, Leiden University, The Netherlands: Leiden University, →ISBN, page 10:

     The Laboya say they are traditionally less eager to participate in the barter system (madara as the Laboya call it) than other West Sumbanese people.

Derived terms

• Laboyan

See also

• Wiktionary's coverage of Laboya terms

References

• Danielle C. Geirnaert-Martin (1992) The Woven Land of Laboya: Socio-cosmic Ideas and Values in West Sumba, Eastern Indonesia, Leiden University, →ISBN
• Allahverdi Verdizade (2019) Selected topics in the phonology and morphosyntax of Laboya: A field study, Stockholm University

Further reading

• Lamboya language on Wikipedia.Wikipedia