Laboya
An Austronesian language spoken in the Sumba island in eastern Indonesia.
Proper noun
- An Austronesian language spoken in the Sumba island in eastern Indonesia.
- Moro in Laboya language means "Owner, master". The "Master of the feast" is a translation of the Indonesian "Tuan Pesta", a term which West Sumbanese use when they speak Indonesian. When speaking Laboya, different terms...
- For example, in the Laboya language, which is spoken by a community who are neighbors of the Kodi in western Sumba, nyale is the word for "seaworms" while nare refers to an inedible kind of seaworm that Laboya people...
Origin
From Laboya Laboya, from the de-prenasalization of earlier Lamboya.
Forms
Noun
- The speakers of the Laboya language.
- Unlike Westerners, the Laboya prize animal fat more highly than the lean parts of the flesh, both in pigs and in buffalos. - 1987, Danielle Geirnaert, “Hunt Wild Pig and Grow Rice: On Food Exchanges and Values in...
- The Laboya say they are traditionally less eager to participate in the barter system (madara as the Laboya call it) than other West Sumbanese people. - 1992, Danielle C. Geirnaert-Martin, The Woven Land of Laboya:...