English
ajak
Ajak comes from Malay ajak.
- Malaymodernajak
- Indonesianmodernsame form
- Englishearliest quotation 1991same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history not traced here.
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- Malaymodernajak
- Indonesianmodernsame form
- Englishearliest quotation 1991same form
Earliest quotation: 1991, Bill Dalton, Indonesia Handbook: “Indonesia where the ajak, the handsome, rufous, bushy-tailed wild…”
Every English word from Malay ajak
Today it means
noun The dhole (Cuon alpinus).
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Malay ajak / ajak