Sumbanese
Sumbanese adjective: of or relating to Sumba or its people or language.
Adjective
Sumbanese (not comparable)
- Of or relating to Sumba or its people or language.
Noun
Sumbanese (plural Sumbanese)
- A person belonging to the native Austronesian people of the island of Sumba.
- However, fasting as a prescribed ritual act is unknown to the Sumbanese. The other day I asked a young Sumbanese, who was a graduate of a three-year primary school, but not yet a church member, what was meant in the reading book by ...1952, The Bible Translator
- Indeed, a profound ambivalence is expressed in stories about both European traders and the Bimanese, as in this one, collected by Kruyt in Weyewa in 1920: In the old days, the Sumbanese were friends with the "white foreigners" and the ...1997, Janet Hoskins, The Play of Time: Kodi Perspectives on Calendars, History, and Exchange, Univ of California Press, →ISBN, page 37
Proper noun
Sumbanese
- An Austronesian language or dialect continuum spoken in eastern Sumba.
- Synonyms:
- Kambera
Examples of Sumbanese in a sentence
- Many ritual-speech representations of Dutch presence on the island that have been preserved have a gendered character to them in which a Sumbanese is depicted in a female role.1998, Joel C. Kuipers, Language, Identity, and Marginality in Indonesia: The Changing Nature of Ritual Speech on the Island of Sumba...
- A third missionary, C. de Bruijn, was sent to work more specifically among the Sumbanese, but in his long period of duty (1892–1927) he also concentrated on the Sawunese in Kambaniru.2008, Jan Sihar Aritonang, Karel Adriaan Steenbrink, A History of Christianity in Indonesia, BRILL, →ISBN, page 322:
Synonyms of Sumbanese
Forms of Sumbanese
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| alternative form | Sumban |
| Noun | |
| plural | Sumbanese |
Origin of Sumbanese
From Sumba + -n- + -ese.
Phrases with Sumbanese
Questions about Sumbanese
- What does Sumbanese mean?
- Sumbanese means of or relating to Sumba or its people or language.
- How do you use Sumbanese in a sentence?
- Many ritual-speech representations of Dutch presence on the island that have been preserved have a gendered character to them in which a Sumbanese is depicted in a female role.
- What part of speech is Sumbanese?
- Sumbanese can be an adjective, a noun or a proper noun.
Words near Sumbanese in the dictionary
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