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Dusun, n. and a.|ˈduːsən|
[a. Mal. dusun orchard, village.]
A. n.
1. doosoon, dusun. In Malaysia, a village or settlement; (an area of) cultivated land.
1783W. Marsden Hist. Sumatra 49 The doosoons or villages..are always situated on the banks of a river or lake. 1845Encycl. Metrop. XXV. 247 Each dúsun or village is governed by a dúpatí or head-man. 1914Oxf. Survey Brit. Empire II. xii. 381 The Malay orchard, or ‘Dusun’, indeed, is a curious combination of the efforts of man and nature. 1964J. C. Jackson in Wang Gungwu Malaysia xvii. 265 In more recent schemes the allocation has been 8 acres of rubber, 2 acres of dusun, and a 1/4-acre house-lot.
2. a. (A member of) a Dyak people inhabiting the Malaysian state of Sabah (formerly North Borneo).
1836Penny Cycl. V. 188/2 In the interior [of Borneo] are the Kayan, the Dusun, the Marut, the Tataoeli, &c., but they are not farther known. 1858Geogr. Jrnl. II. 347 The inhabitants of this region, the Dusuns, or, as they are also sometimes called by the Malays, Idäan, are, for the most part, a fine, well-made, and not unhandsome race. 1881[see Murut]. 1924Chambers's Jrnl. XIV. 73/2 The Dusuns are great gamblers. 1968Encycl. Brit. III. 966/1 Other aboriginal groups to be noted are the Murut and a subdivision known as the Dusun of North Borneo. They are wet-rice cultivators. 1974Encycl. Brit. Macropædia XI. 372/1 Some groups, such as the Melanaus of Sarawak and the Dusuns of Sabah, have abandoned the longhouse settlement form.
b. The West Indonesian language spoken by the Dusun people.
1922O. Rutter British N. Borneo iii. 64 He much appreciates your being able to say a word or two of Dusun and will then recognize you as a friend indeed. 1965K. G. Tregonning Hist. Mod. Sabah iii. 32 Dusun-speaking descendants of Chinese produced sago and pepper. Ibid. ix. 176 Schools teaching Chinese and Dusun or Malay. 1972Bk. of Thousand Tongues (rev. ed.) 110/2 Dusun, with Tagal, shows affinities with the Philippine tongues.
B. adj. Of or relating to the Dusun people or their language.
1851Jrnl. Indian Archipelago 49 Dusun knife..used by the Dusuns or Hill Tribes. 1897Jrnl. Straits Branch R. Asiatic Soc. July 2 The Dusun (Kadasan) language contains some very old forms of words. 1960K. G. Tregonning N. Borneo i. 7, I was loaded..on to a small decrepit launch, along with..three Dusun porters. 1974Encycl. Brit. Macropædia XVII. 230/1 In Sabah..rural Dusun women coming as nurse trainees to the capital city discover that their ‘native law and custom’ does not apply. |