68 A DICTIONARY SUNDANESE 



serpents , who afterwards coalesced with the sect of Slwa. Bat. Trans. Friederich Vol. 

 23 Page 48. 



Bliujanga, Clougli Page 495, from Bhuja, crooked, and anga, body, that is a ser- 

 pent or snake. 



Bujuk, to coax, to cajole, to wheedle. 



Bujur, tlia same as Jubur, the anus. 



Buk, the idiomatic expression of striking, either with the fist or with any implement, 

 by shoving it against the object to be struck. Hence the word Tumbuk which see. 



Buka, to open, to uncover, to exposé. Open; space, breadth, what a thing opens out to. 

 Laivang kudu di buka, the door must be openecl. Rasiyah na kudu di buka, its secret 

 must be exposed. Buka na meunang sa asta , it opens out to the breadth of a cubit. 



Buka puasa, to break the fast , to eat after fasting ; literally to open the fast. 



Buka upih, name of a bird in Sawahs or swamps. See upih. The bird is so called, 

 because when on the ground, it is of a dirty dark color, and hardly perceived, but 

 on flying up shows white under its wings, which is like the opening of an upih. 



Bukit, This word is properly Jlfalay, and means ahill, not a mountain. It occurs in only 

 two solitary instances in the Sunda districts, as applied to mountains, and these are 

 the Bukit Tunggul and Bukit Jarian, two mountains in Bandong. Bukit Tunggul means 

 „ Stump HiW ; it is on the boundary line between the Pamanukan Estate and Sumë- 

 dang. The tradition of the country says that here was felled the tree which was to 

 form the Prahu which is supposed to still exist in the adjoining Tangkuban Prahu, 

 which see. The Bukit Tunggul is a rather conical hill and bears a rude resemblance 

 to the stump of a fallen tree. It is strange that these solitary instances of Bukit 

 should occur in the interior of the Sunda districts , surroundecl by otherwise purely 

 Sunda names. Had it been on the coast , we might have imagined some ancient Malay 

 colony settled near it. As it now is, it looks as if the Sunda people had hunted a 

 name out of a foreign language to designate a mountain which it appeared to them 

 anomalous to call a Gunung , with the word Tunggul ^=j stump of a tree, affixed to it. 



B u k o , a book , derived from the Dutch work Boek , a book , and pronounced the same as 

 the English word. 



Bukti, a possession, any thing valuable which is obtained; a fall of good luck. Ngabukti, 

 the act of coming in possession. Buktija , C. 475, a possession, an inheritance. Sia 

 ngabakti aing ngabukti, Do youmake offerings and I will appropriate them. (Bhukti, 

 eating ; possession , usufruct. Wilson). 



Buku, a knot in atree, a joint, articulation. The space between two joints of the hand. 

 Buku pare, the joints in a paddy straw. Buku leungan, the joints of the hand. 



Bukur, having some tangible substance, which can be taken in the hand and examined, 

 as distinct from air or water. Substance, contents, matter. 



Bukur an, ha ving substance, something tangible. Omong eta bukuran, that talk conveys 

 somethin >• tangible. 



