28 A DICTIONARY SUNDANESE 



A y o n , to compare weighfs , to balance one weiglit with anotlier. 



Ayu, handsome, pretty- in the Kawi of Java a name for the daughter orwifeofa Prince. 



Raden ayu, a title born by native women of royal birth. 

 Ayuman, to mend by insertion , as a thatched roof by inserting new materials where the 



old had failed ; or by replacing seed or plants , where they had failed in a plantation. 

 A y u n , to swing backwards and forwards ; to rock as a craclle ; to clangle a child in the arms. 



A ceremony performed when an infant is first taken out of the house in to the open air. 

 Ayunan, a swinging cot for an infant. 



Ba- al, sore, painful the skin worn or rubbed off to the quick. 

 Bab, ar: achapter, a division of a book. The stamp- like seal smeared with lamp- black, 



and put at the head of a great man's letter. 

 Baba, aname given to a male Chinese child born in Java, and generally called Si Baba. 



"When appliecl to a grown up male Chinese born on Java, it is accented at the end 



and called Babah. ïhis word Baba or Babak prefixed to a Chinaman's name shows 



that he was born on Java or in the Archipelago. Bappa or Balappa , C. 843 , from 



Bala , younger ; Apps> father , a paternal uncle , father's younger brother , and is thus 



a term of courtesy. 

 B a b a c h a k a n , to guttle , to eat greedily. 

 Babad, to cut down jungle, brush wood or grass in preparing land for cultivation ; to clear 



away with an instrument called an Arit. 

 Babad, the paunch, the receptacle for food in the belly of ruminant animals. Babad may 



be a duplication of the first syllable of Bada C, 455, the belly, the abdomen. 

 Babad, chronicle , native history. 



Babad éan, to guess, to solve ariddle; to play at riddles. 

 Babadotan, name of a stinking grass called also Jukut bau, ageratum conyzoides; very 



troublesome in cultivated land, especially in the humahs. Derived from Badot a ran- 



cid he-goat. 

 Bab ai, to fix a token or mark of possession on a tree, either to secure the neighbouring 



land for cultivation, or to show that the fruit on such trees is private property. The 



mark so fixed, which is generally long grass tied rouncl the stem. 

 Babak, the bark of a tree, particularly when peeled off for any use. 

 Babak, the state of a horse when its back is sore and ra w from the saddle- sore- backed, 



said of a horse. 

 Babak, a turn, a short spell of work. Hayang ngajaran sa babah I will take a turn for 



trial. Kudu ku kula ayeunah sa babak let me now have it for a trial. 

 Babakalan, said of young people whoe are courting , but not as yet engaged in marriage : 



derived from Balcal. which see. 

 Babakan, a sub- village ; a village whose inhabitants have originally come off as a colony from 



some other village , as it were peeled off, as we might say „swam^d" when speaking 

 of bees. 



