Definitions for Dayak

Dayak Day·ak

Spelling: [dahy-ak, -uh k]
IPA: /ˈdaɪ æk, -ək/

Dayak is a 5 letter English word.

You can make 29 anagrams from letters in Dayak (aadky).

Definitions for Dayak

noun

  1. a member of any of several indigenous, Austronesian-speaking tribal peoples of Sarawak and Indonesian Borneo.

Origin of Dayak

First recorded in 1830-40

Examples for Dayak

As is well known, the Dayak women all wear rings of brass around their waists.

Generally, though, there is precious little fighting, as the Dayak attacks only when his victims are unprepared.

A Dayak goes on the war-path more for the sake of the heads he may get, than for the honour and glory of the fighting.

In the evenings he sometimes joined a group of Dayak youths and would start to air his opinions.

Here also was a fort with its cannon, with a Dayak or Malay sergeant and a dozen men in charge.

The tradition of the manufacture of man out of wood instead of clay is thoroughly in keeping with an origin purely Dayak.

The Dayak dogs are fearful cowards, and I was told that they run away at the sight of a wild pig.

I took with me my two servants, Dubi, a civilized Dayak, and my Chinese cook.

I know well that Dubi and his little Dayak sweetheart were almost heartbroken.

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