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Hakim, arabic, learned, erudite, a Doctor, a pliilosopher. (fS'U-.) 



Hal, arabic, state, situation , business, affair, circumstance. (JU-.) 



Hal na, rightly , from its circumstance , considering that. Hal na buruk , the matter being 



that it is rotten. Hal na lain sia nu boga/i, rightly it belongs to you. 

 Halabhab, famished, very hungry. 

 Ha lal, arabic, lawful, legitimate, permittecl, clean; blessed, not forbidden, in opposition 



to Haram , interdicted , accursed. Lauk na halal, the meat is lawful, may be eaten. (J !->..) 



Hal alken, to make lawful, to legalize. 



Halangan, impediment, intervention , any circumstance which preven ts a person doing 



any act. Ari to bogah halangan, if nothing comes in the way. (Cf. Mal. Idrang and r drang.) 

 Halimun, mist, haziness hanging about mountains. Gunung Halimun, the mountains of 



mist — name of the range between Jasinga and the Prianger Regencies. 

 Haling, placed between like a curtain, intercepting view. (Jav. idem.) 

 Hal ir, a shout of irony. 

 Halis, the eye brow. (Mal. Javan. idem.) 



Haliwu, disturbance, uproar, a great noise. Confusion in arrangements, 

 Haloken, to designate, te speak of, to consider as. 

 Halu, a pestle, particularly for pounding out paddy. It is a long straight staff of 



hard wood , about 5 or 6 feet in lenght , and as thick asa man's wrist. (Mal. Javan. idem.) 

 H a 1 u r , a furrow , a trench , a groove. The beaten track of animals in the forest. See Waluran. 

 Ham, the idiomatic expression of biting at, of snapping at, as a tiger or dog would do. 



The act of pouncing at with the moüth. 

 Hama, any thing which is prejudicial, disease, complaint, indisposition. Mama bëurëum, 



the red disease. Hama putili, the white disease, two diseases which attack the blades 



of young growing paddy. (Ar. .-_ humma, laboravit febri?) 



H a m a - a n , troubled with some disease. 



Hamat, a designation for a quantity of paddy, of a weight varying in different parts. 



The people inland of Batavia do not count by Hamats. 

 Hambal, the rundie or step of a ladder. 

 Hambar, tasteless , insipid. 

 Hambaru, post and plank driven in to contain an embankment, to prevent the earth 



from slipping clown. 

 Hambérang, the name of a tree which is a variety of fig. Ficus nivea. It has been named 



Nivea , the snowy , because when the wind catches and turns the large leaves, the under 



part which is white comes into view. The leaves are given to horses where grass is scarce. 



