240 • A DICTIONARY SUNDANESE 



Laju, quick, rapid; straight on; iramediately. Zaju nalcér lumpat na he ran very fast. Zaju 

 bai di gtbugan , and forthwith he thraslied hira. Zaju batik ka imah , and he immediately 



went home. Zagu, or Zaghu, C. 603, swiffc, speedy. (Mal. Speedy. Jav. Kawi. To con- 

 tinue ; continually.) 

 Lajur, straight on, continuous, unbroken. (Kawi. To go right through; a straight line. 



Mal. A furrow. A page with lines drawn on it.) 

 Lak, to guttle, to eat vulgarly. 

 Lak, sealing wax. This word is Dutch, but has been by them adopted from some Indian 



language. C. 606 has Zakada and Zaksha, sealing wax. (Zdxd, Scr. the lac-insect; 



the nests of it are used as sealing wax. It is also a red dye. Wilson.) 

 Lak, does not often occursingly, but appears to be the etymon of Ngélak to yelp, to 



keep bellowing out a song; Salak, a prickly thorny bush; and may be also of GalaJc, 



fierce , furious , savage , like a dog which growls and barks on every occassion ; Salak 



in Malay is to bark. 

 Laka, a large forest tree, a variety of wild nutmeg. Myristica Iners. 

 Laken, woollen cloth. The word is Dutch, of same import. 

 Lakötai, wiggle-waggle , said of any construction which does not hold firmly together, 



but works loose and shakes, as for instance a cart, a water- wheel or the like. 

 Lakian, to get a husband; said of a woman who marries. Eioéan, lakian pardnti alam 



dumja, To take a wife or get a husband is the custom of the world. (Jav. ZdMn, to 



live with a man.) 

 Lak la kan, the uvula, the bit of flesh at the entrance of the wind-pipe. 

 Lakop, any covering board along the ends of planking. The plank running the length of 



a natives house, along the upper ledge, and holding fast the Bilik. It corresponds 



to the Zinchar which performs the same service beloio. 

 Laksa, a lac. 10.000 in the Malayan Archipelago, though on the continent of India, the 



same word expresses 100.000. Zaksha, C. 602, a lack , 100.000. 

 Laksa, vermicelli, rice paste made into long stringy slips; see Sangku. Probably the 



same word as Zaksa , a lack , from the multiplicity of small round pipes of paste , and 



by giving it this name, the native perhaps thought that he persuaded hls gods, to 



whom it was offered, that he was very generous towards them. 

 Laksamana, the name of the brother of Rama in the poem Ramayana. (Scr. Lakshmana.) 

 Laksamana, the title of the commander of the fleet in some Malay states. The High- 



Admiral. Zaksïiamana, C. 602, chief, principal. 

 Laksmi, Zakshmi, C. 602 one of the three principal female deities of the Ilindus; the 



wife of Vishnu, and goddess of wealth and prosperity. See Kamala-hiang. 

 Laku, easy terms, eiuWable, possibility to do anj-thing, acceptable. Zakn di paksa , it 



is possible to enforce it. Jalan éta to laku di sorang , that road cannot be travelled 



over. To laku, it cannot be done, it must not be attempted. (Jav. Mal. Going, course, 



voyage; manner; behavioui';, action. Custom.) 



