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Iban

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Etymology

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From Proto-Malayic *biawak, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bayawak.

Noun

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bayak

  1. monitor lizard

Turkish

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Etymology

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From Proto-Turkic *baya (recently).[1]

Pronunciation

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Adverb

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bayak

  1. (obsolete, dialectal) recently
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References

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  1. ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*bAja”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill