230 A DICTIONARY SUNDANESE 



Kreta, a carriage, a coach, a cart on European wheels. Karattê , C. 108. any kind of 

 wheeled carriage. (Prof. T. Roorda derives the word from the Portuguese Carreto. Fr.) 



Kris, the well known Malay weapon or dagger of this name. 



Krisna, a Hindu god. Clough gives at Page 153 the folio wing account. Krisna or more 

 properly Krishia. In Hindu mythology Krishna is considered the most celebrated form 

 of Vishnu, or rather Vishnu himself,- in that form he is, however, distinct from the 

 10 avatars or incarnations of Vishnu, being always indentifiecl with the deity himself. 

 One of the names of Arjuna the charioteer of the Sun. 



Kromong, a metal instrument to be beat, belonging to the gamelan. (See Koromong.) 



So ' 

 Kr o si, arabic, a chair, a stool. ( w X'Kursi.) 



Ku, with, by- Bêah hu bëdul, destroyed by the pigs. Ku aing, I will take it. Kubatur, 



taken by my companions. 

 Kuah, gravey, juice, sauce, broth. 

 Kuat or Kuwat, arabic, strong, able, vigorous. To mëunang kuwat 1 cannot put strength 



to it. I cannot use my strength. Kuwat nakër, he is very strong. (jjjf Quwwat, 



strength.) 



Kubër, to stir up a water or liquicl , into which some substance has been thrown, so as 

 to mix the whole thoroughly. (Jav. Xëbur idem.) 



Kuch ai, shalots, a variety of small onion planted in humahs. 



Kuchël, faded and soiled. Anything which from much use has lost its freshness. 



Kuchubung, the barrel of a gun , the bore of a gun. 



Kuchubung, name of a plant. Datura metel and ferox; the thorn apple. Dhuttura, C. 

 302 , the thorn apple , stramonium. It is a shrubby plant with cleeply indented leaves ; 

 bears a round pod or seed cell , one inch in diameter , covered with blunt thorns , and 

 contains a lot of small brown seeds which are given to Perkutut doves to clear their 

 voices and make them sing; also given to Janghrihs , a kind of grasshopper to make 

 them fight to death. For man it is considered a deadly poison , but in small quantities 

 is mixed with adulterated opium to give it an unnatural stimulus. 



Kuda, a horse. Kudra in Tamil, a horse. 



Kuda, a denomination for some of the chiefs in old Javanese history. It is most probably 

 Kuda, C. 128, small, little, diminutive, and thus indicating the younger, as it is still 

 used in this sense in Ceylon. So Kuda Laléan, is the grandson of the celebrated Panji. 

 (It means, I think, also in this title a horse, being a strong animal; cf. Ivëio, or 

 Mundincj and Mahisha, a buffalo, further Punggaiva, a buil, Lëmbu id. and also Gaja, 

 elephant, as titles of chiefs in Javanese and Balinese History. Fr.) 



Kuda awéwé, a mare, a female horse. 



Kuda bapa, a stallion , a father horse ; a stallion kept for covering mares. 



Kuda baralak, a cock-tailed horse; a horse with a stiff and rigid tail. 



Kuda-kuda, two stout pieces of wood joined like an X, with a pole projecting from the 

 middle. Such kuda - kuda are universally used by carpenters to lay their wood on which 



