Dayak
Americannoun
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Dayaks,
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Dayak
plural
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of Dayak
First recorded in 1830–40
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The auction house, in Bangor, County Down, has two human heads listed for sale in an ongoing auction: the 3,000-year-old Egyptian head and a Dayak tribal trophy skull from Borneo, Indonesia.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026
We were walking along a trail when the 43-year-old forester stopped and slid a mandau, the machete-like knife carried by the Indigenous Dayak people, from a sheath at his waist.
From National Geographic ● Jan. 23, 2024
The same is true of the Dayak fruit bat, which can only be found in southeast Asia's Sunda Shelf.
From Salon ● May 28, 2022
His family has lived deep in the rainforest for eight generations, and the 62-year-old has been involved in multiple legal actions as the secretary general of the Sarawak Dayak Iban Association, an Indigenous rights group.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 8, 2021
The Land Dayak have doubtless been crossed with Indo-Javans.
From Man, Past and Present by Alfred Court Haddon
It is not just Dayaks who are anxious.
From Economist ● Jul. 20, 2017
Back then, the Dayaks allied themselves with the Malays, a Muslim ethnic group, suggesting that the conflict was not about religion.
From Economist ● Jul. 20, 2017
The Dayaks, with the help of Indonesian geographer Irendra Radjawali, are taking full advantage of this technological shake-up.
From Slate ● Jun. 2, 2015
Of course, it’s not as simple as just handing the Dayaks a drone, giving them a bit of instruction, and leaving them to gather their own aerial data.
From Slate ● Jun. 2, 2015
The Dayaks here have three small houses and the Malays have five still smaller.
From Through Central Borneo; an Account of Two Years' Travel in the Land of Head-Hunters Between the Years 1913 and 1917 by Carl Lumholtz
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