120 A DICTIONARY SUNDANESE 



hard wood, mostly teak, are laicl, longer at one end than at the other. When such 



bars are struck with a small mallet, they give out musical sounds. Another variety 



of gambang has brass bars instead of wooden ones. 

 Gambar, a picture, a representation. An historical table or account. 

 G a m b i r , Nauclea Gambir , a shrub , the leaves of which are boiled down and yield an 



inspissated juice which dries, and is then cut into small cakes. This material is also 



called Gambir and is eaten every where in tbe Archipelago along with the Sëurëuh 



or Siri, which see. It is producecl in large quantities at Singapore and Rhio. 

 G a m b o s , soft and yielding ; not hard and firm ; said of softish vegetable materials. 

 Gamelan, a set of native musical instruments , of which the Gambang and Go-ong form 



part. A native band. 

 Gamelan Saléndro, a full assortment of native musical instruments is so called. 

 Ga m pang, easy facile. Eta gampang, that is easy. 

 Gampangkën, to make light of any matter; to trifle with. 

 Ga m para n, a wooden sandal or sole of thick wood , held to the foot by a peg with 



a round knob, which passes between the toes. 

 Ga m pleng, conceding or giving way; doing something rather unadvisedly. Gampleng 



bai di jual, he threw it away in a sale; he slapped it off at a sale. 

 Gamudra mupu, a main receptacle; a place where every advantage exists. Quere is 



Gamudra a wrong expression of Samudra, C. 711. the sea, the ocean? Mupu is to- 



gather up, and would then mean- „the sea which gathers up or acts as a receptacle'' 1 . 



The sea being large receives all rivers and all they bring down into it. 

 Gana, C. 164. One of the names of Ganesa. The troops called Gandharwa, a kind of 



inferior deities considered as Sivas attendants, and under the especial command Gane'- 



sa , the Iiindu god of wisdom. 

 G a n c h a n g , quick , fast. Ganchang lumpat na , he ran fast. 

 Ganda, shalots, a kind of small onion grown in the humahs amongst the mountains 



Ganda, C. 165. smell, odour, perfume. Whether om Sunda word has any more than 



resemblance of name to boast of, it is hard to teil, as the shalots are not particularly 



noted for smell. (Gandha, smell; means also Morunga hyper anthera; Aloewood; and the 



bud of the ChampaJca Jloiver; adiffusive fragrance). 

 Ganda rusa, a fruit resembling a mangga. (Müshaka is a plant, Justicia Ganderussa). 

 Gandasoli, name of a plant growing among grasswith a small yellow flower. The word 



sounds Sanscritical. Ganda, C. 165 smell, odour, Sidiya C. 755. the curve or groove 



of a screw; mischief, deceit. It is a variety of Hedychium. 

 Gandéng, making a noise or disturbance; boisterous, noisy. 

 Gandët, cut but not quite through; cut with a notch. A notch or catch of any kind. 



A ridge or impediment. 

 Gandol, to carry anything, as a bundel or the back folded up in the Samping or 



Sarung. 



