Bajoran
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- proper noun
- /bəˈdʒɔrən/
- Jargon
- If you look hard enough, you'll find a Bajoran prophecy for just about anything.
- Thousands of Bajorans
- ancient Bajorans
- kill Bajorans
Examples
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Five months ago, Captain Yates was hired by the Bajorans to carry cargo to their outlying colonies.
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That future would require some kind of exposition in order for it to be believable; for example, Deep Space Nine had the backstory of the fragile political state between the Federation, the Cardassians, and the Bajorans.
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Maybe we could even see them revisit the devastated Bajoran sector.
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Though hardly a huge change to the format of the eventual series, it would have opened up storytelling possibilities with some Bajorans.
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What have the Tholians, Bajorans, Gorn, Breen, Borg, and First Federation been doing in the meantime?
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Jake blinked, then smiled amiably at the small Bajoran woman in the doorway.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Bajoran = Bajor (transparent) = Bajor + an
The demonym for a person of Bajor is formed by adding the common suffix '-an' to 'Bajor', a straightforward morphological process.
Etymology
Bajoran is the name for a person from the planet Bajor in Star Trek, where the -an ending means 'from' or 'of'. So a Bajoran is someone 'from Bajor', a member of that fictional people with their own culture and beliefs.