balian

From Balinese balian.

balian (plural balians or balian)

1. A Balinese shaman or traditional healer.
   • 1990, Fred B. Eiseman, Jr., Bali: Sekala and Niskala, Tuttle Publishing, page 136:

     A balian may be consulted in order to determine the location of a lost object or the identity of a thief.

   • 2005, Makara Media, Bali Blues, page 147:

     I had immediate misgivings when Komang, Thomas, and I visited the balian that evening.

   • 2008, Nancy Connor, Bradford P Keeney, Shamans of the World, page 150:

     A balian has to be careful about what he or she eats and about sexual relations.

• Albina, Bilaan

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *balian.

balian (Balinese script ᬩᬮ᭄ᬬᬦ᭄)

1. shaman, (traditional) healer

• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*balian”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /baˈlian/ [baˈli.an]
• Rhymes: -an
• Syllabification: ba‧li‧an

Borrowed from Toba Batak [Term?].

balian (plural balian-balian)

1. (dialect Toba Batak) rice fields or fields that are owned but are located outside the residential area. [since 2017]

Ultimately from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *balian (“shaman; shamaness; shamanistic ceremony”). Doublet of belian.

• Borrowed from Kerinci [Term?].
• Borrowed from Balinese balian (“a Balinese shaman or traditional healer”).

balian (plural balian-balian)

1. shaman, witch doctor.

   Synonyms: belian, dukun, pawang, tabib

2. (dialect Dayak) traditional Dayak healing ceremony
3. a shaman who acts as an intermediary between the human world and the spirit world; an ancient spiritual expert of Kerinci
4. religious leaders in the Bali Aga community

Borrowed from Toraja-Sa'dan [Term?].

balian (plural balian-balian)

1. castrated female buffalo [since 2024]

• “balian”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

From bali +‎ -an.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /baˈliʔan/ [bɐˈliː.ʔɐn̪]
• Rhymes: -iʔan
• Syllabification: ba‧li‧an

balian (complete binalian, progressive binabalian, contemplative babalian, Baybayin spelling ᜊᜎᜒᜀᜈ᜔)

1. to suffer a fracture (of one's bone)

• balani, balina