Buginesen.adj.
/bʊɡᵻˈniːz/, U.S. /ˌbʊɡəˈniz/ A. n.
1. A member of a people living in South Sulawesi, a province of the Indonesian island of Sulawesi; = Bugis n. 1a.
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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
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
1800 Philos. Mag. 6 199 It has not been possible for them [sc. the inhabitants of Passier] to drive back the Buginese, who have made themselves masters of the river.
1849 W. H. Medhurst tr. Wang Dahai Chinaman Abroad 34 We Buginese are celebrated for our military skill.
1948 D. Diringer Alphabet vii. 430 The Macassarese and the Buginese..are the most important and the most advanced peoples of the island [sc. Celebes].
1979 Far Eastern Econ. Rev. 2 Mar. 21/1 Jusuf was a Buginese who was making good.
2002 J. Minahan Encycl. Stateless Nations IV. 1754 Originally one people, the Buginese, left the homeland in the southwest to migrate north and east.
2. The Malayo-Polynesian language of the Buginese; = Bugis n. 1b.
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the mind > language > languages of the world > Austric > [noun] > Austronesian > Sulawesi > Bugis
Buginese1876
Bugis1932
1876 Encycl. Brit. V. 288/2 The prevailing language is Buginese, but Macassar is also spoken by a considerable number.
1908 Amer. Anthropologist 10 445 Buginese welon-palodjan, ‘flower of water’, for ‘foam’.
1977 K. Katzner Langs. of World (1986) ii. 237 Buginese is spoken on the island of Celebes, Indonesia. There are about 2 1/2 million speakers.
2004 New Straits Times (Malaysia) (Nexis) 5 Sept. 10 Barnard..also speaks fluent Indonesian, Buginese, Minangkabau and Dutch.
B. adj.
Of or relating to the Buginese or their language; = Bugis adj.
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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
the mind > language > languages of the world > Austric > [adjective] > Austronesian > of Austronesian languages
Formosan1650
Moluccan1700
Bugis1808
Tagalog1808
Murut1836
Indonesian1850
Lifu1852
Motuan1885
Buginese1897
Dusun1897
Pangasinan1904
Lifuan1917
Pilipino1936
Marshallese1945
Yami1953
Tolai1963
?1811 Ld. Minto Let. in Lord Minto in India (1880) xii. 281 (note) Buggese, properly Bouginese, Prows, belonging to the Rajah of Pontiana.
1849 Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 19 93 This [colony]..was ruined by the treachery of some Buginese mercenaries in the pay of the Company.
1862 Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 10 465 In this strange vessel..and with a Buginese crew..we made the voyage.
1897 Jrnl. Straits Branch Royal Asiatic Soc. July 121 Ampiri, a Buginese word for the plant.
1948 D. Diringer Alphabet ii. vii. 431 The Buginese or Bugis character is the most complete of the three varieties.
2002 J. Minahan Encycl. Stateless Nations IV. 1753 The South Sulawesis speak the Buginese and Makassarese languages of the South Sulawesi group of the Austronesian language family.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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