OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

Entry record from Heston (2015): Fataluku Central

Page number: 178

arapou

•  water buffalo.

Note: In Fataluku culture, the bride-price paid by a man to his wife's family at the wedding is traditionally 77 buffalos.

Etymology: Loan of unknown provenance; cf. Malay kerbau, Tagalog kalabáw, though this word was likely a loan in AN as well; see Blust & Trussel 2010 and Headley Jr. 1976:467