leyak
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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.
- Scrabble points
- 12
- Words With Friends
- 12
- Letters
- 5
Definition of leyak
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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A Balinese witch or practitioner of black magic.
“Meanwhile the leyak has become invisible and the servant is very much relieved, but just then the patih sees it as it is disappearing behind a group of children, who squirm about uneasily.”
“A leyak can transform himself, or rather, his spirit, into another form – a monkey, a bird, a ghostly light, a body without a head – the variety is endless.”
“She was like a Balinese leyak, one of the spirits of humans most often seen in the form of a blue flame that darts from coconut tree to coconut tree, at night.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Balinese leyak (“black magic; sorcerer”).
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