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Dangka I have furtlier to add, tliatit appears in Javanese in the form Dangka (Dong- 



ko) and means according to Gericke Page 544 „the abode or dweiling of a Buta; a 



common miserable house. Hadadancjka, to have an abode (of a Buta) ; to live in a 



bad house". 

 Dantan, a female buffaloe which has not yet had a calf. 

 Banu, a lake, a large swampy lakein Bantam north from the Gunung Karang. (See the 



following. Jav. ranu). 

 Danu, Prosperous, abundant. Taltun danu, an abundant year. [Banu, Skr. a donor, 



a giver. The lakes or tanks (in India) might certainly be considered as donors of 



the means of existence. Fr.) 

 D a p i t , to fasten anything together by tying them between two sticks , slips of bambus so 



used, called in Malay Japit. 

 Daptar, ar: a register, an inventory, a written list of things. (See daftar). 

 Dapur, a kitchen , a cooking place , a fire place for cooking. An oven. A stool or bush , 



as of Bambus, Sugar cane or similar plants. 

 Dar, ar: mansion, abode, Only heard in the religious expression Dar- al- Salam , the man- 



sion of bliss , of peace. 

 Dara , a young woraan who has just got her first child. Dara C 266 , a wife. See Dadara. (38). 

 Dara, a tame pigeon, columba, rarelyused; the ordinary word is Japati which see. Ma nuk 



Dara or wife bird no doubt alludes to the pigeon let fly by the wife who commits herself 



to the fiames on the death of her husband , as is still the case in Bali. [Japati ö Jagapati , 



victorious.) 

 D a r a j a t , to obtain an encrease of title , rank or the like. To get riches , to obtain pros- 



perity. Baradjat Marsden 131 is Arabic and means steps of a stair case, or ladder; 



a degree of honour ; rank. 

 Darangdang, Ficus Heteropleura , one of the numerous varieties of wild figs. 

 Dara pon, at random, any how, as long as you can get it; without selection , the first 



that comes. 

 Dar at, land, in contradistinction to water, drylaLcl, the shore. Dara, C. 258 the Earth. 



May be derived from Addara , C. 23, the edge, border, margin; and Rata, C. 581. 



a country , a district , and be tiras the margin land. [Bharat , participle of dhr i with ri 



vocalis; from the same root is dhara , which means also the earth. Fr.) 

 D a r d u r the idiomatic expression of loud and successive claps , as of tirander , or the fre- 

 quent discharge of cannon. Any other loud noise which is frequently repeated at short 

 intervals. Violent disputing between parties attended with noise. 



(38) Ddrd and Ddrdh, ïn the plural form of the masculine gender means a wife; Ddraka, a son; 

 a child, an infant, or young animal (see Dadara); Ddrikd, adaughter, (also a whore). Ddrakarman, 



marriage. Wilson. 



