Dyak

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A form of Dayak — A member of the indigenous ethnic groups of Borneo.

Scrabble 12

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nounDyak (plural Dyaks or Dyak)

plural Dyaks

  1. alternativeAlternative form of Dayak.

    The savage Malays are the Dyaks of Borneo; the Battaks and other wild tribes of Sumatra; the Jakuns of the Malay Peninsula; the aborigines of Northern Celebes, of the Sula island, and of part of Bouru.

    1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 441

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