Definition of "Bajau"

Bajau

noun
plural Bajaus or Bajau
1. (geography) An island in Indonesia (part of the Riau Islands) with the coordinate location 3°7'31.84"N, 106°18'38.30"E.
2. (ethnology) The indigenous people native to Bajau island (part of modern-day Indonesia), these ethnic group nowadays predominantly inhabit the Bajau island and its adjacent regions in Indonesia and also expanded to the southern Philippines.
  Quotations
  The Bajaus, or sea gypsies, live in boats, their occupation being fishing.
  1905, United States. Bureau of the Census, Census of the Philippine Islands‎, volume 1, page 565
  The largest tribe is the 60,000-member Bajau. The Bajaus were once sea nomads and pirates.
  1969, James W. Gould, The United States and Malaysia‎, page 30
  The Bajau are a group of seafarers who migrated from the Philippines only a couple hundred years ago. The Bajau on the eastern coast of Sabah carry on their traditional connection to the water, living as sea gypsies and coming to shore only for burials. On the west coast, however, many Bajau have settled on dry land as farmers and cattle raisers.
  2011, Daniel White, Ron Emmons, Jennifer Eveland, Jen Lin-Liu, Frommer's Southeast Asia, page 569
proper noun
1. (linguistic) The native language spoken by the Bajau people (the indigenous of Bajau island in Indonesia).