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.

Related terms

• Bajau

 

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

• “bajau” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.