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Alu-alu, four chëchéndét of Haramai flax. 



A 1 u n , to swira , and at the same time to support sorae other persou or body , as a sin- 

 Icing boat, a loaded raft or the like. The swell of the sea, a wave. 



Alun-alun, on open plain or parade ground in front of the dwellings of native official 

 chiefs , or governors of districts , as the Eegents , where processions and public ceremo- 

 nies take place. Two waringin trees are always planted in the centre. 



Alur, the beaten path in the forests of wild cattle and Khinoceroses- a furrow. 



Alus, fine in texture or quality, gen teel, respectable , clever , cunning. 



Ama, father, a refined expression used only when speaking of men of rank. 



Am al, 'ar: pious good works , by which the grace of God is obtained. 



Amar, ar: Thing, affair, business, order, mandate, injunction. Amar allah , the mandate 

 of God. 



Amat, very, excessively, Bener amat, very true, Beurat amat, very heavy. 



Ambalu, Gum-lac. The ambalu of the Sunda mountains" does not give the true gum-lac 

 of commerce , which is produced by the Coccus lacca. The Sunda ambalu is neverthe- 

 less produced by a small Coccus insect found fastened upon the trees in the same 

 way as books describe the true ambalu of commerce. In Java this ambalu is most 

 frequently found upon the Ficus Procera or Kiara, which in common with all other 

 figs , yields much milky sap , but does not seem to produce the lac which is valuable 

 in commerce. Crawfurd's Dictionary says the word in Javanese is Tambalu , which 

 would give Tamba C. 222 copper, Baluh or Baluïca C. 469, a drug, a perfume, 

 sand, gravel. Thus copper drug, or copper sand. The colours would suggest the cop- 

 per colour, and the Hindus might have imagined the substance either a drug or for- 

 med of sand. Or Tamba-copper, and Luta or Luna , C. 609, a spider, local infiam- 

 mation produced by the urine or spittle of a spider, from a sort of spider forming the 

 lac. Tamba-luta ri Tambalu. (12). 



Ambar, ar : amber ; ambergris. 



Ambar, a small foetus brought forth at full age of nine months , but unnaturally small; 

 this child always dies , and some of them are dried and preserved as talismans or 

 charms for good luck. 



(12) Tambalu, does not occur in the Javanese dictionary of Gericke, edited by T. Eoorda. Am- 

 sterdam 1847; neither exists it in Wilson. lst edition. Tamba is no Sanscrit; the words given for 

 copper bij the Amara Kosta are: Tamraka, (in Wilson is also to be found tdmra), qulva , mlecha- 

 muïcha, dvyashta, warishta udumbara. From tamraka is the Javanese-Malay tembaga a corruption, 

 occasioned by the difncult pronounciation of mr. Tamba might be a Ceylonese corruption of tdmra; 

 but it is rather an established fact, that Ceylonese or Pali words have got no intrance into the 

 Malay and Javanese, but only true Sanscrit ones. The rest of the above derivation will perhaps 

 not be tasted by etymologists , and I restrain from judging about it. Fr. 



