A 

 DICTIONARY 



OF THE 



SUNDA LANGUAGE 



OF JAVA. 



A. 



Abah-abah, goods , chattels , efFects ; gear , tackle - see Parabah. 



Abang, Javanese-Red-rarely heard-occurs in the word Tanabang near Batavia - Tanah- 

 abang-red land. 



Abdallah, the son of Abd-ul-muttalib , and father of the prophet Mohammad, he was the 

 husband of Amina. Not long affcer their marriage Abdallah set out on a trading jour- 

 nev to Gaza in the south of Syria , and on his return , died at Medina before Mohammad 

 was born. 



Abd-ul-Muttalib, the grandfather of Mohammad, who took care of him when left as an 

 orphan at the early age of seven years : but he also died soon after in A. D. 578 aged 

 82 years. Col: Rev: June 184 Page 374. Abd-ul-Mutalib was noted for the munifi- 

 cence with which he entertained all pilgrims, who came to the temple in Mecca of 

 which he was guardian. 



Abdi, ar: a slave or bondman to the government; the term was in vogue under the Sul- 

 tans of Bantam. Throughout the Country of Ban tan there were scattered Lumbur 

 abdi and orang abdi , abdi villages and abdi people , who were treated as serfs or sla- 

 ves, and their joung women sent to the Harems in Bantan, by a sort of „Droit de 



seigneur." 



Abdul, ar: the slave of — from the arabic word abd slave. Many Mohammedan names 

 begin with these words, as Abdul-Rachman the slave of the compassionate (God)- 

 Abdul Rahim, the slave of the merciful (God). 



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