Crossword clues for indonesian
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Indonesian \In`do*ne"sian\, a. [Indo- + Gr. ? island.] Of or pertaining to Indonesia or Indonesians.
Indonesian \In`do*ne"sian\, n.
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A member of a race forming the chief pre-Malay population of the Malay Archipelago, and probably sprung from a mixture of Polynesian and Mongoloid immigrants. According to Keane, the autochthonous Negritos were largely expelled by the Caucasian Polynesians, themselves followed by Mongoloid peoples of Indo-Chinese affinities, from mixture with whom sprang the
Indonesian race.
The term Indonesian, introduced by Logan to designate the light-colored non-Malay inhabitants of the Eastern Archipelago, is now used as a convenient collective name for all the peoples of Malaysia and Polynesia who are neither Malay nor Papuans, but of Caucasic type. . . . The true Indonesians are of tall stature (5 ft. 10 in.), muscular frame, rather oval features, high, open forehead, large straight or curved nose, large full eyes always horizontal and with no trace of the third lid, light brown complexion (cinnamon or ruddy brown), long black hair, not lank but often slightly curled or wavy, skull generally brachycephalous like that of the melanochroic European.
--A. H. Keane.The Indonesians [of the Philippines], with the tribal population of some 251, 200, live almost exclusively on the great island of Mindanao. They are not only physically superior to the Negritos, but to the peoples of the Malayan race as well, and are, as a rule, quite intelligent.
--Rep. Phil. Com., 190 2. A native or inhabitant of Indonesia.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1850, from Indonesia, from Indo-, comb. form of Greek Indos "India" (see India) + nesos "island" (see Chersonese). Formerly called Indian Archipelago or East Indies Islands (see Indies).
Wikipedia
The word Indonesian may refer to:
- Anything of, from, or related to Indonesia, a country in Southeast Asia, including Indonesian people
- Indonesian people
- Culture of Indonesia, a complex of original indigenous customs and multiple foreign influences
- Indonesian language, locally known as Bahasa Indonesia, the official language of Indonesia
- Indonesian cuisine, diverse cuisine from Indonesia's approximately 6,000 populated islands
Usage examples of "indonesian".
Fifteen or so saronged Indonesian tourists were waiting on the other side of the gate, conversing in Bahasa pidgin and sipping locally bottled designer water.
For one thing, Hidaka had made it clear to the Indonesians that any extended conversation in their native tongue of Bahasa would not be tolerated.
For us, that means an unprecedented supply of condemned Americans, Viet Cong, Nigerians, Biafrans, Indonesians, South Africans, Russians, Indians, Pakistanis and Arabs.
And clearly, an Indonesian invasion that began a few hours after Kissinger had stepped off the tarmac at Jakarta airport must have been planned and readied several days before he arrived.
Had the London-based shipping broker known it, Lampong is simply one of the minor languages of the island of Sumatra, whence his Indonesian visitor originally came.
Grady Morant, or whether Ram was working for the Indonesian government.
Was he Melanesian, Polynesian, Indonesian, Nepalese, Surinamese, Dutch-Chinese?
He looked at the passageway, trimmed in Indonesian tigerwood, which led aft to the control room and forward to the staterooms of the captain and first officer.
A babbling fountain was set into the polished tile of the floor, and the jets of clear water were reflected in a rainbow shining high overhead on the ornate Indonesian tigerwood carvings in the ceiling.
Americans who survived the massacre in East Timor on November 12, 1991, a massacre during which Indonesian troops armed with American M-16s gunned down at least 271 Timorese civilians in front of the Santa Cruz Catholic cemetery as they were gathered in the act of peaceful mourning and protest.
And other similar events, in the Japanese and Indonesian archipelagos, in the Soviet Union.
Tash came for her weekends and we went to the movies and had lunch at the Indonesian restaurants in Muswell Hill which she liked, and I willingly put up with Deng Deng Goreng and bean shoots for the pleasure of her company.
We watched the coast and caught Indonesian commandos and paratroopers sneaking in by boat or being dropped.
It seemed clear that his dead brother was pulling him inevitably into a world where one would need to know the difference between Chinese and Vietnamese and Japanese, Cambodians, Indonesians, and all the rest.
On the Asian mainland Austronesian-speaking farmers were able similarly to replace some of the former hunter-gatherers of the Malay Peninsula, because Austronesians colonized the peninsula from the south and east (from the Indonesian islands of Sumatra and Borneo) around the same time that Austroasiatic-speaking farmers were colonizing the peninsula from the north (from Thailand).