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Sakai, n. (and a.)|ˈsɑːkaɪ|
Also 9 Sakkye.
[Malay, lit. subject, dependent.]
a. An aboriginal people of the Malay peninsula (loosely used of Malayan aborigines collectively); a member of this people.
b. The language of the Sakai. Also attrib. or as adj.
1839T. J. Newbold Pol. & Statistical Acct. Straits of Malacca I. vii. 421 The Semangs, Sakkye, or Orang Bukit, men of the hills. 1886Jrnl. Anthrop. Inst. Feb. 285 In this state of Perak there is at present besides the Sakais one other race, the Sĕmang. Ibid., The Sakai race inhabits the left bank of the Perak River. 1906[see Jakun]. 1920R. J. Wilkinson Hist. Peninsular Malays (ed. 2) i. 3 The fair wavy-haired aborigines known as the Sakai inhabit both sides of the Malayan main range. Ibid. 8 The grammar..of Sakai is extraordinarily complex and inflected. 1932L. Golding Magnolia St. iii. vi. 538 The people seemed stranger to him than the pygmies of the African jungle or the Sakais of Malaya, who live up in the hills and make their clothes out of the bark of trees. 1952P. D. R. Williams-Hunt Introd. Malayan Aborigines i. 1 Sakai, used generally for Aborigines is a derogatory term which is disliked by most jungle dwellers. 1966Telegraph (Brisbane) 18 Nov. 2/3 Malaya's aborigines, the little brown jungle men called Sakai, tried out a little modern technology. 1977P. Theroux Consul's File 43 The local sakais—they might have been Laruts—had deported some wild monkeys there. |