Dictionary

Sumbanese en · ADJ

Etymology

From Sumba + -n- + -ese.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Of or relating to Sumba or its people or language.

Forms

Sumbanese en · NOUN

Etymology

From Sumba + -n- + -ese.

Meanings

1. (in-plural) 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:
   • 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. The last decades of the nineteenth century were a ... 2008, Jan Sihar Aritonang, Karel Adriaan Steenbrink, A History of Christianity in Indonesia, BRILL, →ISBN, page 322:
   • 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. The voice of the Dutchman typically does not appear anywhere in the song; [...] 1998, Joel C. Kuipers, Language, Identity, and Marginality in Indonesia: The Changing Nature of Ritual Speech on the Island of Sumba, Cambridge University Press, page 60:

Forms

Sumbanese en · PROPN

Etymology

From Sumba + -n- + -ese.

Meanings

1. An Austronesian language or dialect continuum spoken in eastern Sumba.

Synonyms

Kambera