pairang

Paiwan

Etymology

Probably borrowed from Taiwanese Hokkien 歹人 (pháiⁿ-lâng, “bad person”).

Noun

pairang

1. Hoklo person/people
2. (by extension) Han person/people; non-Indigenous person/people/settlement
   • 2020, Abao (lyrics and music), “tjakudain 無奈”, in kinakaian 母親的舌頭‎^[1] ft. (李英宏) Dj Didilong:

     tjakudain? pairang sun, tjakudain

     What can we do? You are not Indigenous. Nothing I can do.

References

• Ferrell, Raleigh (1982) Paiwan Dictionary (Pacific Linguistics (Series C); 73)‎^[2], Canberra, Australia: Australian National University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 387
• “Entry #192694”, in 排灣語北排方言辭典 [Dictionary of the Northern Dialect of Paiwan]‎^[3] (in Chinese), Taiwan: Council of Indigenous Peoples, 2021