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Bajau, n. and a.
Brit. |bəˈdʒaʊ|, U.S. |bəˈdʒaʊ|
Plural -s unchanged
Forms: 17–18 Bajow, 18 Badjow, 18 Badju, 18– Bajau, 18– Bajaw, 19– Badjao, 19– Badjau, 19– Badjaw, 19– Badjo, 19– Bajao, 19– Bajo
[‹ Bugis Bajau subject of a country, Orang Laut (see Orang Laut n.), sea-gypsy. Compare Malay Bajau, Indonesian Bajau in the same sense.
On differences of usage in different areas, as well as the association with piracy, T. Harrisson (in Jrnl. Royal Asiatic Soc., Malaysian Branch 9 (1976) 1–14) says: ‘In parts of its range westward, [Bajau] becomes interchangeable with other terms, the best known of which is Orang Laut... In the eastern archipelago the term [Bajau] was and is generally used to include all nomadic boat people of the area, whereas in the western sector it came commonly to denote pirates.’]
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.
1769A. Dalrymple Plan for extending Commerce 69 It is inhabited by Bajows, and is reported to have a good small harbour. 1837G. W. Earl Eastern Seas x. 335 Many of the Badjus remain throughout the year near the Dutch settlement of Macassar. 1846J. 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). 1912C. 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. 1992J. 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.
1869A. R. Wallace Malay Archipelago II. 476 Nine words in fifty-nine languages of the Malay Archipelago... 59. Bájau. 1912Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 42 54 They do not understand Bugis or Bajau at all. 1978T. 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. 1996B. 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.
1887Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 16 231 The model of a pirate boat..made by a Bajau chief. 1898J. Conrad Tales of Unrest 45 We wandered upon the Seas with the Bajow people, who have no country. 1936Geogr. Jrnl. 88 369 The Bajao sea gypsies..are dying out and nothing is being done to help them. 1992J. 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. |