Minangkabauadj.n.

1783 W. Marsden Hist. Sumatra 279 Between the Menangcabow people, those of Rou.., and the Achenese, wars used to be perpetual.

1808 Asiatick Researches 10 iii. 165 The Menangkábow race..seem at an early period to have ruled the whole island of Sumatra.

1839 T. J. Newbold Polit. & Statist. Acct. Straits of Malacca II. xiv. 219 The information..was derived..from various Menangkabowe chiefs of Rumbowe and Naning.

1911 J. G. Frazer Golden Bough: Magic Art (ed. 3) I. iii. 193 The Minangkabau people of Sumatra.

1928 Man 28 89 The Minangkabau people are to this day most typically matrilineal.

1947 R. O. Winstedt Malays viii. 154 Some of the sayings of the Minangkabau tribes of Negri Sembilan rise to poetry.

1972 M. Sheppard Taman Indera 65 The Randai, the Minangkabau dance drama from West Sumatra.

1991 Pacific Affairs 64 437 The founder of the Downstream dynasty claims a Minangkabau origin from Kota Pagaruyung via the kingdom of Inderarupa.

a1811 J. Leyden tr. Malay Ann. (1821) ii. 37 All the Menangcabows were surprised at his appearance.

1839 T. J. Newbold Polit. & Statist. Acct. Straits of Malacca I. v. 200 The inhabitants [of Naning]..are always styled ‘Manikábowes’, or settlers from Menángkábowe, in Sumatra.

1939 Sociometry 2 48 The anthropologist is familiar with societies like that of the Minangkabau of Sumatra, in which the ‘family’ is so organized that the father is almost completely excluded, while the mother is only one of a number of women whose duty it is to rear the child.

1964 Jrnl. Asian Stud. 23 427 I have a strong suspicion that the failure of the Lampongs to develop the entrepreneurship and political leadership so apparent among the Minangkabau and the Bataks further north has something to do with the similarity of the British system of rule there to that of the Dutch in Java and the British in Burma.

2000 S. Broughton et al. World Music: Rough Guide II. i. 137/2 The Minangkabau are one of the world's few matrilineal societies and to check out their music it's necessary to visit Bukkittinggi, a charming hilltown north of the sea-port capital of Padang.

1916 C. O. Blagden tr. R. Brandstetter Introd. Indonesian Ling. i. 9 The following are the languages we shall make use of in general... In Sumatra, Minangkabau, Karo, Toba (these two being also commonly called Batak), Gayo, and Achinese.

1955 P. Voorhoeve Crit. Survey of Stud. on Lang. of Sumatra iv. 15 From a purely linguistic point of view Minangkabau belongs just as much to Malay as do e.g. Bajarese or Sea-Dayak.

1990 L'Homme 30 cxvi. 82 The ‘mother’ and ‘child’ opposition can be utilized freely by a speaker of Minangkabau to capture certain qualities of objects.