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Kaparëk, serviceable, as a person who is in great request. 



Kapas, Cotton. Gossypium arboreum , and Gossypium Indicura, two varieties , the former 



perennial and growing in the villages about the houses ; the latter an annual shrub 



planted in gardens made for the purpose. The name is probably of Indian origin and 



a modification of Karpasa, C. 110. Cotton. Vide kapuk. 

 Kapas C hinde, a plant with a red flower , which yields a pod , with cottony filaments. 



Asclepias curassavica. 

 Kapas raori, a good variety planted for its cotton. Most probably mori is meant for 



mouri , moorish , or from Mauritius, and has thus been introduced by Europeans. 

 Kapen dak, met, encountered, stumbled on. (Pëndak £lamfrmj>s the revolving of a cer- 



tain time; the coming back of the same time; after elapsing of (for instance eight days.) Jav.) 



Kap eng, sometimes, as the case may be. Kapvng na kade, it is sometimes good. (Cf. Jav. 

 Balin. Kaping. (See beneath sub voce). 



K a p é r a d , met , spoken with ; caught , secured. 



Kapidengklung, name of a tall tree in mountain forests bearing a small oblong- round 

 fruit, consisting of a very hard stone covered with an acidulous pulp which is eaten. 

 Often also wrongly called Kopi Déngfdtcng even by natives , because the fruit resem- 

 bles that of the Coffee , and the initial Kapi is very close to Kopi. The tree is also Suratth. 



Kapidërëng, foolishly meddling with what does not regard us. 



Kapikir, to have regret — on reflection to think otherwise. (Jav. Mal. Pikir. Arab. Fikr. £j 



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cogitatio, attenta consideratio. Fr.) 



Kapila, a designation applied to certain black buffaloes which by some mysterious process 

 gradually lose the black colouring matter of the hide, and turn white in blotches, espe- 

 cially along the sides, on the neck and about the head. — (Kapila, Scr. means tawny.) 



Kapilangan, having become unconscious from sudden illness or a fit, but come to life 

 again. Fainted away. (From Hang) 



K a p i n a n g 1 o, name of a forest tree which yields the disks for Pedaty wheels. Epicharis Altissima. 



Kapindis, the swallow which builcls the „Edible birds nest' 1 ''; also sometimes the house 

 swallow, which builds its nest under the eaves of houses. 



Kapinëura, said of old and former seeds which sprout up after the land has been cleared 

 of jungle; not intentionally planted, 



Kaping, properly composed of Ka and Ping. Ka is the preposition to, unto- and Ping 

 partakes of the nature of an expletive which admits of no translation. Ulah kaping 

 harëup ièuyn , ulah kaping bun têvpi, Do not go too much in front, do not lag too 

 far behind. (Kapi7ig is principally usecl before numerals, and is related to ing, ring, in. Fr). 



Ka pi nis, the same as Kapindis, a swallow. 



Kap ir, Arabic, an unbeliever, an infidel. One who denies the unityofthe Godhead,and 



-f? ' 

 the divine mission of Mohammed. Marsden Page 248. ( ;\£ Kafir , infidelis.) 



