单词 | orang laut |
释义 | Orang Lautn. A member of any of various maritime peoples of South-East Asia, esp. southern Peninsular Malaysia and the adjacent Riau Archipelago, but extending eastwards to the coasts of Kalimantan and Sulawesi. Cf. Bajau n. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > Malaysian or Indonesian > [noun] > Malaysian or Indonesian peoples Bugis1672 Rejang1783 Buginese1800 Orang Laut1834 Jakun1839 Sakai1839 Sundanese1849 Timorese1869 Senoi1891 proto-Malay1898 Toradja1911 Temiar1933 Makasarese1948 1834 P. J. Begbie Malayan Penins. i. 9 The Orang Laut are another tribe residing, as their name implies, (Orang Laut, men of the sea) entirely on the sea shore. 1890 R. Kipling Barrack-room Ballads (1892) 135 The frigate-bird shall carry my word to the Kling and the Orang-Laut. 1910 Encycl. Brit. XV. 130/1 They [sc. the Jakuns] are divided into two groups: (1) Jakuns of the jungle, (2) Jakuns of the sea or Orang Laut. The latter set of tribes now comprise the remnants of the pirates or ‘sea gipsies’ of the Malaccan straits. 1963 J. Kirkup Tropic Temper 229 The ancient Orang Laut..peopled the mangrove swamps of the Straits of Johore many centuries before the arrival of the white man in the Peninsula. 1995 Straits Times (Singapore) (Nexis) 27 Nov. 3 They are Orang Laut who live only on fish. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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