326 A DICTIONARY SUNDANESE 



Ondorosol, impatient , liasty and violent in temper. 



Ong'ap, out of breath , blown , stifling , for want of fresh air. (Cf. Batav. Mang'ap opening 



the mouth). 

 Onggël, every, each. Onggel imah , on each house. Onggel jelema, every man. 

 Onggéng, to walk hobblingly, to hobble like an old man. The hobbling inclination of 



the body when women are sifting rice. 

 O n g g r é t , the grub of the Lége , a cockchafer called Melolontlia vulgaris. The onggrét 



lives in the ground and is a soft white grub , with sharp red jaws. It is one to two 



inches long and is very destructive to young plants, the bark of the roots of which it 



feeds upon , and in the humahs, or upland rice plantations, it sometimes nearly destroys 



the whole erop by eating off the young and tender roots of the paddy. 

 Ongkél, to parbuckle; to move by putting a lever underneath and then lifting up and 



forward. 

 O n g k o h , separately , distinctly , individually. Ongkoh bai meunang , he also separately 



got some. Manéh na ongkoh ngala, he also individually took some. 

 On g kol, the fruit stem of the plantain , when it first begins to peep out. 

 On om, as for, kula onom , as for me. Sia onom mohal di béré , as for you, it is not 



likely tb at they will give you any. (Perhaps Set. nama, adverb, namely; certainly). 

 O n t a , a camel. Marsden gives this word as Hindu. The animal is not known in the ar- 



chipelago except by report of those who have made the pilgrimage to Mecca. The 



government of Java imported some about 1840 — 1844 but they soon die out. Otaiva C, 



90, a camel. (Set. is Ushtra , camel. In provincial dialects occurs Unth). 

 O n y a m , name of a small shrubby tree , mostly growing in open grass lands. 

 O p a k , a very thin cake made of rice flour, and baked crisp. 

 O p a n , a bait, especially to take fish. 

 Opanan, to bait , to set a bait. To lure , to tempt. 

 O p a s , a native police man , at least such as are always in attendance upon police autho- 



rities , the Residents &c. and have a peculiar dress. Any attendant about an office.. 



A man to run errands and execute petty commissions. Most likely derived froin the 



Dutch word „oppasser," an attendant, a person in waiting. 

 Opat, four. Pat indicates evenness , and is a stage in the native scale of counting , suc- 



ceeding to Dua, parity, and Tolu disparity , which see. The word pat for four, is 



found , very extensively in the Polynesian languages. Papat is Javanese , the word 



pat with the inseparable prefix pa. Ampat , in Malay. Pat, alone in Achinese and Sirang. 



Ha is Rottinese. Fa is found at several islands of the Pacific. Afa , on Pulo Nias. 



Hatara , four, in Singhalese C. 785. 

 Opat-blas, fourteen. 

 Opat-puluh, forty. 

 Open and Opénan, to medclle with , to molest , to trouble yourself about , to care for. 



Kula tilok ngopénan , I never ïneddle with it. Ulah di opénan , d'ont molest it. Opénan 



teuyn , why should you trouble yourself about it, 



