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Pronunciation
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.
Etymology 2
Noun
bajau
- (precategorial) hit, strike.
Derived terms
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.
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