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Buginese

Buginese adjective: of or relating to the Bugi people.

Adjective

Buginese (comparative more Buginese, superlative most Buginese)

  1. Of or relating to the Bugi people.
    • Buginese epic poem. Relating the elopement of a Bugi of the Island of Sambawa with the King's daughter, with their tragic death.1898, James Ludovic Lindsay Earl of Crawford, Bibliotheca Lindesiana, page 39

Proper noun

Buginese

  1. A Malayo-Polynesian language spoken in parts of Sulawesi, Indonesia.

Buginese meaning in Malay

Buginese in Malay

language
Bahasa Bugis

Forms of Buginese

comparativemore Buginese
superlativemost Buginese

Questions about Buginese

What does Buginese mean?
Buginese means of or relating to the Bugi people.
What is Buginese in Malay?
Buginese in Malay is Bahasa Bugis. See Buginese meaning in Malay.
What part of speech is Buginese?
Buginese can be an adjective or a proper noun.

Words near Buginese in the dictionary

  1. Bugi
  2. bugia
  3. bugias
  4. bugicide
  5. bugicides
  6. Buginese
  7. Bugis
  8. bugkind
  9. bugle
  10. bugle player
  11. bugle players

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Buginese (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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