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

PUU-RAB [148] RAB-RAI
lence ; to end, to terminate ; to decide,
to decree.
Piiun (j. moun). Leave, permission ; to
ask, to entreat, to beg.
Piiun. A tree ; a shrub ; trunk, stem,
stock ; origin, source, fountain ; cause
basis, foundation ; stock, lineage, race ;
beginning, commencement ; a principal,
not accessorj', or auxiliary ; v. Poun.
Rachun (j).
Piiun-mata. The inner corner of the
eye ; literally, " beginning or source of
the eye."
PUun-rambut. The roots of the hair.
Piiun-talinga. The ear at its attachment
to the head.
Puwadi. A bridal throne, or seat of
honour for the bride and bridegroom
at a marriage ceremony.
Puwalam (t. polam). Marble or alabaster;
V. Piialam.
Puwan. A tray or salver for betel.
Puwah-puwah (j). Frizzled or woolly; a
negro. It is applied to anything
with a frizzled or woolly coat. Thus,
a particular variety of the common
fowl with ruffled plumage is called
ayam puwa-puwa ; v. Papuwa.
Puwar. The cardamom, Amonmm cardamomum
; v. Kapulaga.
Puwar-laku. Name of a species of cardamom,
Amomum gradlc.
Puwas (j). To be content, to be satiated.
Puwasa (j).
Fast, abstinence from food
religious abstinence ; the Mahomedan
Lent.
Puwaskan. To satisfy, to satiate, to
content ; to assuage.
Puyuh (j). The quail, Coturnix. In
Java it is applied to the female only.
Puyung (bat). Empty, barren, as a
female.
EaADEN (j). a Javanese title; v.
Raden.
Riiang. The jaws, the upper and lower jaw.
Riiat. A sjjinniug-wheel.
Rab. Tamed, broken in ; trained.
Raba. To feel, to perceive by the touch ;
to search by feeling ; to handle, to
feel with the hand ;
to grope.
Raban. To snuffle, to speak through the
nose ; to dote as an old person ; to
snore.
Rabi (jAv). To marry ; marriage.
Rabit. To tear, to lacerate, to rend, to
rip.
Rabok. Tinder, touchwood ; any combustibleworks.
for kindling a fire ; fire-
Rabu. I'lio lungs.
Rabun. To charm by fumigations ; to
fumigate as a cure for diseases.
Rabun. Dim-sighted, purblind.
Rabung (j. wuwung). The ridge of a
house roof.
Racliik (j. prachik). A snare, a gin, a
trap.
Poison, bane, venom.
Rachuni. To jjoison.
Rad (du. raad). Council board.
Rada. To assuage, to mitigate, to allay.
Radak. To spear from beneath, to
spear by stabbing upwards.
Radap. Name of a kind of dinim ; v.
Radap.
Raden (j). A Javanese title, properly
applied to persons of royal blood only ;
V. Riiaden.
Raden- adipati (j and s). Title of the prime
minister in the Javanese government.
Raden-ayu (jay). A queen ; any lady of
high rank; literally, "the beautiful
l^rincess."
Raga (jAv). The body, the person.
Raga. Wicker-work ; a basket ; a hamper.
Ragang (j. rangsang). To climb, to mount
without a ladder.
Ragang. To stretch, to extend, to spread;
to rack, to stretch.
Ragastina (s). Name of the kingdom of
Subali.
Ragam (s). A tune, a melody ; a musical
mode or style.
Ragam (s). Inclination, will ; caprice.
Ragas. To scramble, to seize at eagerly.
Ragits (j. gagas). To cut off the hair of
the head as a punishment : to dock
V. Ragas.
Ragi (j). Yeast, barm. In Javanese, it
more frequently means " spiceries."
Ragi. A stripe in cloth.
Ragu. Confused, perplexed.
Ragukan. To confuse, to perplex.
Ragum. A vice, a gripe.
Raguwati (s). Name of the mother of
Ramachandi'a in the Ramayana.
Rahasj'a (s). A secret, a mystery ; secret,
mysterious.
Rahu (s). The constellation of the Dragon
in Hindu astronomy ; a serpent or dragon
supposed to be attempting to devour
the sun or moon dui-ing an eclipse, a
belief nearly univei-sal among the nations
and tribes of the Archipelago,
testified by the beating of the stampers
in the rice mortars over a whole
country, from the beginning to the end
of an eclipse.
Rai (jAv). The face, the countenance.
Riiimah. Crumbs, fragments of a meal
or feast.
Riiimas, v. Riiimah.
Rais. To draw an object towards one