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Bajaw vs Bajau - What's the difference?

bajaw | bajau | Alternative forms |

Bajaw is an alternative form of bajau.


As a noun bajau is

a cloth which card players play on.

bajaw

Not English

Bajaw has no English definition. It may be misspelled.

English words similar to 'bajaw':

bashaw, bijou, buchu, baijiu, bacaw, bakaw, beshow, besow, bassaw, bowsaw, besew

bajau

English

(Bajau people) (Bajaw language)

Alternative forms

* Badjao * Badjau * Badjaw * Bajaw

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • The language spoken by the Bajau people of the southern Philippines, part of the .
  • * 1937', W. F. Schneeberger, '' A Short Vocabulary of the Banggai and '''Bajau Language .
  • * 2007', Mark T. Miller, '' A Grammar of West Coast '''Bajau , PhD Thesis.

    • See also

    * bdl, bdr, sjm

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • A member of an indigenous ethnic group of the southern Philippines.
  • * 1905 , United States. Bureau of the Census, Census of the Philippine Islands , Volume 1, page 565,
    • The Bajaus , or sea gypsies, live in boats, their occupation being fishing.
  • * 1969 , James W. Gould, The United States and Malaysia , page 30,
    • The largest tribe is the 60,000-member Bajau'. The ' Bajaus were once sea nomads and pirates.
  • * 2011 , Daniel White, Ron Emmons, Jennifer Eveland, Jen Lin-Liu, Frommer's Southeast Asia , page 569,
    • The Bajau' are a group of seafarers who migrated from the Philippines only a couple hundred years ago. The '''Bajau''' on the eastern coast of Sabah carry on their traditional connection to the water, living as sea gypsies and coming to shore only for burials. On the west coast, however, many ' Bajau have settled on dry land as farmers and cattle raisers.

    Synonyms

    * (member of a people of the southern Philippines) sea gypsy