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Kala, time, perlod. Bahëula kala, 'm former times, in days of old. Kala, C. 111. Time, 

 a division of time. C. 120. Time, a name of Yama, the Regent of death, see Yama. 

 Also a form of Siwa. 



Kalabang, a centipede, a poisonous insect with many feet. Scolopendra. (Perhaps froiii 

 Kdla and bang, red, its colour being reddish. Fr.) 



Kalabu, of a dirty or darkish colour, greyish. (At Batavia idem. In Malay it means the 

 (greyish) hide or mark in a sick eye. Fr.) 



Kalabu, upset, as a boat in water. (Labuh 'm Malay to let fall ; in Javanese and Bali- 

 nese to throw into the water or fire as a death punishment. Fr.) 



Kalachés, name of a bird, also called Panyëuseup. 



Kalachi, a wooden shovellike spoon for stirring dodol when boiling. 



Kala gamarang, a character in the Manek Maya, who was transformed into a ho«\, 

 (In Javanese Kala Gumarang; see Gericke.) 



Kala hang, a very stinking kind of Durian. 



Kalahiran, birth, time of coming into the world. (From the Arabic \\\± thldhir , ap- 



parens, conspicuus, thus the time of coming to the daylight. Fr.) 

 K a 1 a k a i , leaves and refuse vegetable matter collecting on the surface of the ground , 



especially in forests or uncultivated ground. 

 Kalakuan, conduct, deportment, behaviour. For the reason that, seeing that : Kala- 



kuan handap, for the reason that it is low. (From Lahi, to go, to behave.) 

 Kalalén, forgotten, from lali to forget. Is used when addressing an equal. Lali is 



also Javanese for-to forget. [Lali is also Malay and Balinese. Fr.) 

 Ka lam, Arabic, a pen, as used by Arabs and natives. It is made of the substance 



called Harupat, which see. (Ji', qalam calamus scriptorius.) 



Kalam mëta, or Lambeta, name of a variety of grass. 



Kalamantan, Pulo Kalamantan, the native name for the vast island called by Euro- 

 peans Borneo. Quere Kala, C. 120, a name of Yama, the regent of the dead, a form 

 of Siwa. Mantliana, C. 517. agitating, stirring, churning. Can this in any way refer 

 to the Hindu legend of the world having been formeel byaprocess of churnino-. With 

 Borneo surrounded , as it is , by the other islands of the Archipelago , the idea mio-ht su<r- 

 gest itself, of its having been the churning stafF of such an exploit. (60). 



(60) The original inhabitants of Borneo . (Tont know this name; only the Javanese, who conquered 

 the southern parts, so far as the present Pontianak to the westward and the country of the kina- of 

 Kuti to the eastward, could have given such a name to that part of the island they knew, and 

 by the Malays, who were the successors in possession of the maritime parts of Borneo the name 

 raight have been spread farther. I should prefer to consider the name Kalamantan (or Kalamantën\ 

 originally certainly Kalamanta as a lenghtened form of Kdlamat (in the stronger cases Kalamant) this 

 means possessincj Kdla, (the destroying deity). The a is added to save the stronger form, and the 



