Sulu

See also: sulu

English

Etymology

From Malay [Term?].

Noun

Sulu (plural Sulus)

  1. A member of a prominent Moro tribe, occupying the Sulu Archipelago.
    • 1908, George Frederick Kunz & Charles Hugh Stevenson, The Book of the Pearl, →ISBN, page 216:
      That is the reason why the Sulu people have the right, and that they came to make the dredge (badja) to get the mother-of-pearl shell from the deep, because they can not see them.
    • 1921, Ignacio Villamor & Felipe Buencamino, Census of the Philippine Islands - Volume II, page 950:
      At the present time there are but few remains on the Island of Jolo of the past glory and civilization of the Sulu people.
    • 1970, Leigh R. Wright, The Origins of British Borneo, page 34:
      If the Spaniards merely meant to subjugate the Sulu, suppressing piracy and lawlessness on the way and no more, they would have been applauded in many quarters.

Proper noun

Sulu

  1. Their language.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for Sulu in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Cebuano

Proper noun

Sulu

  1. the province of Sulu
  2. the Sulu Archipelago
  3. the Sulu Sea
  4. (historical) the Apostolic Prefecture of Sulu
  5. (historical) the Sultanate of Sulu
  6. the Royal house of Sulu
  7. a member of the Royal house of Sulu
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