bajau

See also: Bajau

Hausa

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /bá.(d)ʒáu/
- (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [bə́.d͡ʒáu]

Noun

bajau m (possessed form bajan)

(card games) A cloth which card players play on.

Adverb

bajau

reddened

Iban

Verb

bajau

to rape

Indonesian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Indonesian Bajau bajau.

Noun

bajau

(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.
(in a sense of Bajau) citizenry.

Related terms

Bajau

Noun

bajau

(precategorial) hit, strike.

Derived terms

membajau (“hitting”)

Etymology 3

Derived from Buginese ᨓᨍᨚ (wajoʼ).

Noun

bajau

Alternative form of Bajo.

Etymology 4

Blend of bintara +‎ peninjau

Noun

bajau

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.

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