Definition of Sabahan

1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to Sabah or its people. "Sabahan tribesmen"

Partainyms: Sabah
Derivative terms: Sabah

2. Noun. A Malaysian from Sabah.
Group relationships: North Borneo, Sabah
Generic synonyms: Malaysian

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sabahan

Saan
Saanen
Saanen goat
Saanen goats
Saanich
Saaniches
Saaremaa
Saarinen
Saarland
Saarlander
Sab.
Saba
Sabadell
Sabaean
Sabah
Sabahan
Sabaism
Sabal palmetto
Sabaoth
Sabari
Sabba-day
Sabbat
Sabbatarian
Sabbatarianism
Sabbatarianisms
Sabbatarians
Sabbath
Sabbath-day
Sabbath school
Sabbatharian

Literary usage of Sabahan

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Grammar of the Persian Language: To which is Added, a Selection of Easy ...by Duncan Forbes, Ḥikāyāt-i laṭīf by Duncan Forbes, Ḥikāyāt-i laṭīf (1844)
"_Lk£ sabah, morning, dawn of day; 'ala-s-sabah or U-Uc sabahan, early in the morning. fro subh, the morning, dawn, Aurora. sahra, a desert, a plain. sad, ..."

2. Glossary of the Multani language compared with Punjábi and Sindhi by Edward O'Brien (1881)
"... Arabic CW Sindhi " sabahan. M"«*M«O Oxi--U^»--L-*-' ,»« .1 pjl" 8 A BAIN s F.— A small quantity of buttermilk put into fresh milk to start the process ..."

3. In Place of the Forest: Environmental and Socio-Economic Transformation in by H. C. Brookfield, Lesley Potter, Yvonne Byron (1995)
"There are no restrictions on claims for native customary land, and access to land is easy for people who are only partially of sabahan descent and even for ..."

4. Democracy, Governance, and Economic Performance: East and Southeast Asia by Ian Marsh, Jean Blondel, Takashi Inoguchi (1999)
"In 1994. several newly formed sabahan parties were accepted into the BN - the Chinese-based Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) and the Kadazan-based Parti ..."

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