单词 | bajau |
释义 | Bajaun.adj. A. n. 1. A member of a nomadic maritime people distributed throughout the islands and coastal areas from the Malay peninsula and Indonesia to the southern Philippines, and formerly associated with piracy. Cf. sea-gipsy n. at sea n. Compounds 6a. ΘΠ the world > people > ethnicities > Malaysian or Indonesian > [noun] > Malaysian or Indonesian peoples > person Bajau1769 Rejang1783 Buginese1800 sea-gipsy1817 Makasarese1820 Samsam1836 Jakun1839 Sakai1839 Sundanese1849 Sasak1869 Timorese1869 Temiar1933 Orang Asli1961 pribumi1974 1769 A. Dalrymple Plan for extending Commerce 69 It is inhabited by Bajows, and is reported to have a good small harbour. 1837 G. W. Earl Eastern Seas x. 335 Many of the Badjus remain throughout the year near the Dutch settlement of Macassar. 1846 J. Brooke Expedition to Borneo II. ix. 192 The next pirate horde we meet with is a mixed community of Illanus and Badjows (or sea-gipsies). 1912 C. Hose & W. McDougall Pagan Tribes of Borneo II. xxi. 253 Round about the northern coasts are to be found many small bands of Lanuns and Bajaus, living largely in boats. 1992 J. Hamilton-Paterson Seven-tenths vii. i. 238 Piracy need only be a sideline. At its lowest level, such as that which has all but driven the Bajau to land, it is a matter of rat-poor fishermen preying on other rat-poor fishermen for the simplest things. 2. The Austronesian language spoken by the Bajaus. ΘΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Austric > [noun] > Austronesian > other Austronesian Moluccas1619 Formosan1704 Sunda1816 Melanesian1849 Sundanese1849 Lifu1852 Bajau1869 Ambonese1875 Acehnese1882 Kiriwinian1916 Tolai1962 Moluccan1977 1869 A. R. Wallace Malay Archipel. II. 476 Nine words in fifty-nine languages of the Malay Archipelago... 59. Bájau. 1912 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 42 54 They do not understand Bugis or Bajau at all. 1978 T. A. Llamzon Handbk. Philippine Lang. Groups xxviii. 145/1 The Bajaus call their language sinama. Others refer to it as ‘Bajau’ or ‘Badjaw’ or ‘Badjao’... In 1948, there were 143,150 speakers of the language. 1996 B. F. Grimes Ethnologue (ed. 13) 657 Bajau, Indonesian (Badjaw, Badjo, Bajo, Bajao, [etc.]). B. adj. Of, relating to, or designating the Bajaus or their language. ΘΠ the world > people > ethnicities > Malaysian or Indonesian > [adjective] > Malaysian or Indonesian peoples Macassar1665 Minangkabau1783 Rejang1783 Buginese?1811 Makasarese1841 Sundanese1856 Sasak1869 Bajau1887 Senoi1891 Bugis1898 proto-Malay1898 Temiar1933 mamak1982 1887 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 16 231 The model of a pirate boat..made by a Bajau chief. 1898 J. Conrad Tales of Unrest 45 We wandered upon the Seas with the Bajow people, who have no country. 1936 Geogr. Jrnl. 88 369 The Bajao sea gypsies..are dying out and nothing is being done to help them. 1992 J. Hamilton-Paterson Seven-tenths vii. i. 232 The Bajau language is a dialect of Samal (properly called Sinama) and besides, they consider themselves to be Samals of a kind. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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