Dayak

American  

[dahy-ak, -uhk] / ˈdaɪ æk, -ək /

Also Dyak

noun

PLURAL

Dayaks,

PLURAL

Dayak

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

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Dayak British  

/ ˈdaɪæk /

noun

1. a variant spelling of Dyak

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Etymology

Origin of Dayak

First recorded in 1830–40

Example Sentences

Last Wednesday, in an attack by Taliban insurgents, a roadside bombing in the same province targeted and killed a district police chief and his two bodyguards in the Dayak district.

From Washington Times

In the roadside bombing in Ghazni, Wahidullah Jamazada, the provincial governor’s spokesman, said Habibullah, the police chief of Dayak district, was killed along with his two bodyguards.

From Washington Times

“The air quality is similar to inhaling 50 cigarettes at the same time,” said Sumarni Laman, a volunteer at the city’s Ranu Welum Foundation, who works to preserve the culture of the region’s Dayak people and protect forests.

From Reuters

East Kalimantan serves as a gateway to Borneo’s mythical jungles, the backdrop to Joseph Conrad novels and home to the native Dayak tribes once feared for headhunting.

From Los Angeles Times

His father, he told us, was a king of one of Borneo’s dozens of Dayak tribes, the sixth descendant of the sultan of Old Kotawaringin, and his mother came from a line of warriors who served in the Indonesian special forces.

From New York Times