Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

sabahan

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.24 in modern English

Syllables
saba-han
IPA
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Of or relating to Sabah.

adj

Relating to the Sabahan language family.

noun

A native of Sabah.

name

A subfamily of Malayo-Polynesian spoken around Sabah in Borneo.

Etymology

From Sabah + -an.

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

more Sabahan (comparative) most Sabahan (superlative) Sabahans (plural)

Synonyms

Sabahian

Questions

What does sabahan mean?
Of or relating to Sabah.
Where does sabahan come from?
From Sabah + -an.

How to pronounce sabahan

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