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Paria, a cueurbitous liane giving a fruit with bitter taste, and covered with short stumpy 



knobs. Momordica Charantia. 

 Paribasali, an expression; a method of expressing oneself. A maxim, a saying. Pari- 



bhasa, C. 368, play, sport, amusement; a grammatical maxinri given as a summary 



explanation of certain rules of grammar: (in medicine) Prognosis. 

 Pari gel, suitable, fit, proper, beeoming , appropriate. 

 Pari o - el ken, to put in order; to set to rights; to arrange matters. 

 Parigi, a ditch, a trench, either deep or shallow. A fosse dug round a house, or rouncl 



any enclo£>ure, with a view to using it as a defence or means of defence. Parikha, 



C. 366, from Pari round, Kha, to dig, — a moat, a trench, a ditch round a fort. 

 Parihatin, careful; paying proper attention to all requirements. 

 Parit, to wind a running string round any fence work; to interlace pieces of wood or 



bambu , but not to knot each stick separately. 

 Par o, part, portion. To divide. Kudu di paro lima , you must divide by five, only take 



on fifth. See Saparo and Paparon. 

 Parol, to gather fruit by drawing the branch or stem through the hand, so that the fruit 



drops off. To strip off roughly. Kopi na ulah di parol, do not pull the coffee off 



roughly. 

 Parrai, name of a small but plentiful fish, in stagnant water , in swamps or small streams, 



seldom above a couple of inches long. Leuciscus Argyrotacnia. Ki-parrai, name of 



a tree , Lepisanthes montana. 

 Par si, Persian. Kuda Parsi, a Persian horse. 

 Parud, to rasp, to reduce by filing. 

 Parudan, a bit of plank set with fine spikes, on with cocoa nut is rubbed down to fine 



shreds. A fine rasp. 

 Parung, a place in a river where the water has a long and gradual but rapid faii over 



a rough bottom. "YVhen over a smooth bottom it is called Banlar. 

 Parung pung, the hollow in the stem of a tree. Any hollow in a growing tree. 

 Par ut, paid off, discharged in full — as a debt. 

 Pas, a passport. The Dutch word Pas, a passport. 

 Pas, occurs only in Jalan pas, said of a horse which is running at a peculiar pace, where 



by it moves both legs on one side, at same time. The word Pas is most likely of 



Portuguese origin. The „Jalan pas" is a very easy pace for the rider, as the jolting 



of the usual European galop or canter is avoided , and the rider sits comfortably and 



moves quickly. 

 Pasah, a plane; a carpenter's tooi for smoothing wood. 



Pasal, the Arabic Fasal, article, section , paragraph, subdivision of a writirig. 

 Pasalisihan, missing each other, not meeting in consequence of travelling somewhat 



different routes. In Malay Selisih, Marsden 178, to differ, to vary from, to be at 



variance. üifference (in quality or in opinion). 



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