A grammar and dictionary of the Malay language : with a preliminary ...

PIJ—PIN [ 140 PIN—PIN
Pijit (j. pijad, or pijat). To nip, to pinch
to champoo.
Pijitan (j. pijatan). Name of a fruit, a
variety of Lansiiim domeiticuni.
Pikau. A shuttle.
Pikat. A gad-fly.
Pikat (j). A decoy or trap for animals
to decoy, to entrap.
Pikau. Name of a bird.
Pikir (a. f akar). To think, to reflect, to
consider, to meditate, to muse, to
pondei-, to weigh ; to suppose, to imagine;
thought, reflection, consideration,
meditation; imagination, supposition,
opinion ; v. Fakar.
Pikiran (pikir). Thought, reflection, consideration
:
opinion.
Pikul (j). To carry on the back; to
beai', to carry a burthen ; to bear, to
wear ; to undertake, to assume ; a man's
burthen; a weight, estimated at 100
Cliinese catties, and equal therefore to
133^ pounds avoirdupois.
Pikun (JAV). Dotmg, superannuated ; a
dotard.
Piladu. Name of a bird.
Pilak. A wretch, an unlucky wight.
Pilak (bat), a rheum, a cold.
Pilang (bat). A rammer for beating the
eail;)! in making a floor or road.
Pilang. A barge, a galley, a pinnace ; v.
Pelang.
Pilat (bat). To inquire, to look after, to
inspect.
Pilih (J. milih, and pilih). To choose, to
select ; to pick, to cull ; to glean
chosen, picked, selected.
Pilihan. Choice, the thing chosen.
Pilih-pilih. Choicely, scrupulously.
Pilin (ben). To twist, to form by twisting.
Pilpah. The frond of a palm ; v. Palipah.
Pilu. To melt, to soften to love or tenderness;
tender, compassionate; tenderness,
comjiassion ; sympathetic
sympathy.
Pilu. A Chinese boat,—most probably a
corruption of the Malay prau.
Piuipiu. To lead by the hand ceremoniously;
V. Mimi^in.
Pinangkap (tangkclp). A kind of cubit
the length of the ann from the elbow
to tlie knuckles.
Pinang. The betel-nut or areca palm
and fruit, Areca catechu; the British
island of Penang, or Prince of Wales's,
at the western end of the straits of
Malacca.
Pinangkan. To demand in marriage ; to
affiance, to betroth.
Pinang-bulan. Name of a variety of
areca palm ; literally, " moon areca."
Pinan;; luaminang. To ucgociato a marriage
Pinang-mud'a. A bawd, a procuress;
literally, " a young areca nut."
Pinang-pinang. Name of a fish.
Pinang-randah. Name of a species of
]^alm, Areca pumila ; literally, "lowly
areca."
Pinang-wangi. A variety of the cultivated
areca, Areca odorata; literally, "fragrant
areca."
Pinchang (jAv). Lame, halt, limping,
cripple.
Pinclier. Family, race, lineage ; posterity,
descendants.
Pinding. The house bug ; v. Kapinding
and Pijad.
Pindis. Name of a forest tree,—sometimes,
from the hardness of its timber,
called kayu-basi, or "iron-wood;" v.
Kapini.
Pind'ah (j. mindah). To remove, to
change place; to flit, to migrate, to
emigrate.
Pind'ahan. Remove, change of place,
flitting, migration ; ti-anslation.
Pind'ahkan. To remove, to change from
its place ; to copy, to transcribe ; to
translate, to render from one language
into another.
Piniti (PORT, alpinete). A pin.
Pinituwa (jav). An elder, a senior.
Pinjal (jAv). A flea.
Pinjam. To borrow, to take on credit
to lend, to give on credit. It means
equally to borrow or to lend, and the
sense depends on the context. Thus
bri pinjam is "to lend," and ambil
pinjam is " to borrow." Perhaps the
word " credit," in its commercial sense,
would be the most correct translation.
Pinjamau. Borrow, the thing borrowed ;
a borrowing ; loan, the thing lent ; a
lending.
Pinjamkan. To borrow ; to lend.
Pinji. To tease, to comb as cotton.
Pinjul (j. puujul). Surplus, excess; balance,
remainder.
Pinta (j).
To ask, to beg, to petition, to
pray ; to request ; to solicit, to entreat
request, petition, solicitation, prayer.
Pintai. To ask of, to solicit from, to
demand of.
Pintai. To braid, to twine ; to sj^in.
Pintas. A short cut in a joui-ncy.
Pintitr (jAv). Skilful ; cunning, knowing.
Pintu (j). A door ; a gate ; a wicket
door, entrance, portal; passage; port,
harbour ;
toll-gate.
Pintu-jalan. Head or entrance of a road.
Pintu-karbang (j).
A gate, a gi'cat door,
as of a fortress.
Pintu-maliug. A wicket or window at
which the Malay women sit for recreation
; literally, " thieves' door."