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Laboya
Etymology
From ata (“man”) + ana (“child”), literally, "children of men".
Noun
ata ana
- (historical) slaves
- Antonym: ata madaka
- a Laboyan social stratum of people who descend from slaves and who remain poor and uninfluential
- Synonym: (small men) ata maraha
- Antonym: ata madaka
Holonyms
References
- Geirnaert-Martin, Danielle C. (1992) “ata ana”, in The Woven Land of Lamboya. Socio-cosmic Ideas and Values in West Sumba, Eastern Indonesia (CNWS Publications; 11), Leiden: Centre of Non-Western Studies, Leiden University, page 193