Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

toraja

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.62 in modern English

Syllables: tora-ja
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A member of an ethnic group indigenous to a mountainous region of South Sulawesi, Indonesia.

Etymology

From Buginese [Term?] (“upland people”).

Inflected Forms

Torajas (plural)

Derived Forms

Torajan

Questions

What does toraja mean?: A member of an ethnic group indigenous to a mountainous region of South Sulawesi, Indonesia.
Where does toraja come from?: From Buginese [Term?] (“upland people”).

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