234 A DICTIONARY SUNDANESE 



Kun, saicl of anything wliich belongs to a question of religion which is not clearly u nderstood. 



Kunaun, why, for what reason , why not? composed of Ku with, and naun, what. Ku- 

 naun aing to di béjakên, why did you not let me know? 



Kunchi, a key, a lock, a bolt. Kunchika, C. 126- a key. Laioang kudu di kunchian, 

 the door must be locked, or bolted. (Jav. Mal. idem.) 



Kunchianak, a fabulous spectre said to haunt women in clrild-birth , or with small in- 

 fants at the breast. This spectre is thought to often mysteriously destroy both mother 

 and child. It is sometimes heard pronounced as Kunti beranak , the her before anale 

 betraying it, in Ihat form , to be a Malay expression. The Malays may have made of 

 Kunti hana, Kunchianak, by misunderstanding the meaningofthe words, and adopting 

 expressions of their own of nearly the same sound. Kunti, C. 129 is the wife of Pan- 

 du, and mother of the five Pandawa princes by as many gods, and from her and her 

 children this Javanese spectre appears to have its origin. Hana, C. 785, to hurt, to 

 injure, to kill, and hence llanaha or HanaJci would be a male or female destroyer, 

 elided into Kunü-hana, or Kunti the destroyer. The Malays have evidently seized upon 

 the resemblance of Hanak, to their own Beranak, to bring forth young, and so the 

 expression has got cux*rency in the Indian Archipelago. The Pandawa Princes were 

 killed in the wars, as related in the Mahabarat. (They killed rather their enemies, 

 and retired afterwards into the solitude. Fr.) 



Kundur, a gourd, a variety of large Calabash. 



Kungkang, name of an insect called in malay Balang SangHt, the stinking fly. When 

 touched it voids a very nauseous liquid. It is a great enemy of young paddy when 

 just forming from the flower, and when still in a soft liquid milky state, as the insect 

 then inserts its proboscis into each grain and sucks out the contents , thus often destroying 

 whole corps. (The Sundanese eat these animals! Fr.) 



Kungkung, to make a dam of earthwork filled in between two wooden fences. The 

 Kungkungs of such a dam are more properly the cross bars which hold the opposite 

 sides of the fence from flying asunder. A bit of bambu or wood set in an arch. 



Kungkung, to tie as a dog, with a bit of bambu over the rope, by which it is led, to 

 prevent its getting at the man who leads it, to bite. To bend bambus round a stake 

 to retain it in its place and prevent its giving way. 



Kungkung, the sound of a gong struck at distinct intervals. 



Kungkuwung, the Rainbow, probably refering to its arched shape. 



Kun g si, going to the extent of, going as far as. Kungsi kabikëun, did you go as far as 

 giving it. Kungsi datang , did he go to the extent of coming. Mohal kungsi, it will 

 not require to go to that extent. To kungsi Jcahakan , I did not get as far as to eat it. 

 (Jav. Kongsi, Kangsi, Kasi, till to, as far as.) 



Kuning, yellow, more usually Konèng. Much used in composition , Këmbang kuning, 

 yellow flower, the name of a village so called on the Jasinga Estate. 



Xuningan, brass; properly the yellow metal, or something which is yellow. 



