84 A DICTIONARY SUNDANESE 



28 Pal ém bang, common. 



29 Pinang, the areca nut. 



30 Poké, -wild and like kollé. 



31 Raja, or the King, has a ruddy skin and is rather large. 



32 Raja beu si. 



33 Raja-Pandan. 



34 Raja-Pakuan, small tree and fruit. It is acidulous. 



35 Rangrang. 



36 Ruju, tree low, fruit long and thick. 



37 Sambatu, has Jioyas, but the individual pulp-pods are grown together, as if the 



fingers were glued to one another. 



38 Sëpët, green stem, tree middling size; very common and acrid. 



39 Séwu, the thousand, very small and insipid. 



40 Sukun. 



41 Susu, or milk, one of the most delicate of Plantains. 



42 Tan cl uk or Galék, the Horn, long fruit curved like a horn. Very common 



but must be toasted or steamed, 



43 Warangan, or arsenick. 



Ckaw Asak, the ripe plantain, name of a river fish. 



Chaw Kipas, the fan Plantain, called in Malay Pisang ayer , the water plantain. In- 

 troduced from Madagascar. Ravenala Madagascarencis , formerly called Urania Spe- 

 ciosa. It is known in English as the „traveller's friend'" — from the quantity of water 

 which can always be got from it. 



C ha wat, any cloth twisted round the loins, of which a part or slip hanging down in 

 front is taken up , and passing between the legs is tucked in fast behind. The Chatvat 

 was probably the only dress of natives in days of old, before they learnt the use of 

 cotton, and the art of spinning. Sunda chawats, in old times, were no doubt made ofa 

 bit of bark as , to this day , is the case with the natives of some parts of Celebes. 



Ckawél, to bite or snap at- as a tiger bites at its prey. 



Chaw is, ready, prepared. Ceunang nyawisan, made ready. 



Chaya, also heard as Chahaya, bright, brilliant. Radiance, lustre. ClChaya, C. 203. an 

 image or picture. The wife of the sun. Radiance, beauty, splendour; lustre. (See Cha- 

 haya\ which means also shadé). 



Chayur, a forest tree, Pterospermum Lanceofolium. Makes good planks. 



C h a y u t , a temporary sort of basket made of the leaves of any palm tree platted together. 



Chë, used only with na after it, and thus as Chena, he said, said he. 



C h ë b , the idiomatic expression of sticking in , as a stake in the ground , a needie in cloth 

 or the like. Clieb bai di pager , he stuck a fence round it. Cheb bai di kaput , he sewed it up. 



Chë blok, the idiomatic expression of slapping a post or large stake into a hole in the 



