30 A DICTIONARY SUNDANESE 



It would easily come from Bada C 455 the belly, the abdomen, with Polynesian an 

 suffixeds Badan, which would indicate „ what had a belly - ". The Sundas more gene- 

 rally use Awak for the body, yet still say Badan Sempoma afaultless body, safe and 

 sound, and some other similar expressions. In Pantuns Badan Si Ni/ai is generally 

 the chief female personage of the story, (^jo badan is undoubtedly introduced from the 



Arabic ; the original Polynesian word is awak , which occurs also in Javenese , Balinese 

 and Malay. Fr.). 



B a d a r , the young of fish , small fry. The term is also fondly and playfully applied to 

 children. Crawfurd gives Adar, aged, advanced in years. Our word would form from 

 this with Be^i Badar, being of some age, not old but still advanced from primative 

 nascence. 



Badé, to guess , to divine; to offer to be, to have a pre-appearance of- chi/c badé , try and 

 guess.. Badé na gede, he offers to become great, he looks as if he would grow large. 



Ba dé ga, a servant, an attendant, mostly a young lad. 



Badi, ulterior meaning, what any line of conduct mayleadto; the result. Budak tonyaho 

 di badi a child who does not know what may be the result , a child who is easily ta- 

 ken in. 



Badi-badi- a short dagger, much worn in the girdle or belt. 



Ba dis, assuredly, oh thatfs the way! a term of surprise. 



Baditu, still further on, beyond some object indicated. 



Badiyadari, a celestial nymph. This word is used for the Hüri of the Mohammedans. 

 Widyadhara, C. 648, derived from Widya a magical pill, Dhara who holds- a De- 

 migod of a particular order supposed to be attainable by magical rites and incantations. 

 The Sunda Badiyadari is evidently the feminine of the above words of Clough , which 

 with fmal a and thus in a masculine shape is never heard in the Snnda language, 

 whereas the female shape with final i is very common. (19). 



Badiyo, on this side, nearer the speaker than some other object indicated. 



Bad o cl on, a small temporary Sacipan, set to catch fish when Tuba has been used, see 

 Bedodon. 



B a d o g , to steal , to purloin- a coarse expression. 



B a d o n g , a variety of fish trap set in rapids , resembles a large cylinder made of bambu , 

 with one end tapering to a point. 



Badong, a country so called on Bali. It projects into the Southern ocean likeafish trap 



(19) In Kawi the masculine and feminine form exist, and are written as tliey oughttobe accor- 

 ding to the Sanscrit. They are inferior deities at the command of Indra. The derivation of Clough 

 must be a Buddhistical fancy; widya meaning really knowledtje , and the compound word thus one 

 possessed of knowledye. Fr. 



