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Bajau

name · noun · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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name

Meaning 1

The native language spoken by the Bajau people (the indigenous of Bajau island in Indonesia).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: human-sciences, linguistic, linguistics, sciences

Examples

  • 2007, Mark T. Miller, A Grammar of West Coast Bajau, PhD Thesis.

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noun

Meaning 2

An island in Indonesia (part of the Riau Islands) with the coordinate location 3°7'31.84"N, 106°18'38.30"E.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: geography, natural-sciences

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noun

Meaning 3

The indigenous people native to Bajau island (part of modern-day Indonesia), these ethnic group nowadays predominantly inhabit the Bajau island and its adjacent regions in Indonesia and also expanded to the southern Philippines.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: anthropology, ethnology, human-sciences, sciences

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History

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Indonesian Bajau bajau.