OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

Entry record from de Clercq (1890): Ternate

Page number: 267

dafah

•  to catch; seize; captured person or prisoner-of-war who later became a slave(eng).vangen; grijpen; ook geroofde of krijgsgevangene, die later slaaf is geworden(nld).