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Perlénté, a coxcomb , a dandy; showing airs. The pride of adolescence Dissolute, 

 debauched. 



Përmasuri, a queen consort, a royal female. Per and Iswari, C. 73 , the wife of Siwa, 

 otherwise named Lakshmi, Durga or Saraswati. The letter m has been intercalated 

 between Per and Iswari, for the sake of euphony. 



P e r.n ah , and Përnahkën, to make arrangements for , to accommodate ; to show respect to, 



Përniti, neat and decent in dress. Perhaps from Nita, C. 336, well behaved, modest, 

 humble , obedient, or Niti, C. 336, guiding, directing, leading. 



Përsagi, square, a cube; at right angles. Sagi, however, is not only square, that is 

 four sided, but may imply any indefinite number of sides , as tiga persagi , ampat për- 

 sagi , lima persagi, three , four or five sided. 



Pës, the idiomatic expression of a candle , light or fire going out. Damar na pes baipa- 

 reum, the candle blew out, or became extinguished. 



Pésék, fiat nosed; having a small flat nose. 



Pësék, to tear in shreds; to split up into a small pieces. To tease out. 



Pésian, to take the skin off a fruit, to peel. Pésian kanas, to peel a pine-apple, which 

 is done by cutting off all the outer rind and eyelets. 



Pesing, smelling of urine, stinking of piss. 



Peso, a knife. Peso chukur, a shaving knife, a razor. Peso raut, a whittling knife, 

 to pare rattan with. Peso teundeut, a dagger. Peso penuju, a kind of clagger, a 

 poignard , from Tuju. 



Pës tol, European , a pistol. 



Pëta, arrangements made preparatory to any work or operation , a basis for working on. 

 A sure footing. A place to stand on. Kudu bogah peta, you ought to make arran- 

 gements. Ari turun ha jero katva kudu ngiliken peta , if you descend into a crater , 

 you ought to look out for standing places, or places to rest on. 



Pétak, a garden bed; a bed of anything planted. 



Pë taken, to make arrangements for commencing work. To make dispositions. 



Pétangan, divination ; finding out lost goods by necromancy. 



Pëtët, a seedling plant, any small plant raised from seed. Offspring. 



Pëti, a box, a trunk , a chest. Pettiya, C. 417, a basket , a box, a trunk, a coffer. 

 Peti wang, a money box. Peti beusi, an iron chest. 



Pëtis, a mixture of sugar , salt , délan or trasi, and chabé, with a little water, and 

 used as a sauce with green unripe fruit. 



Pétor, Portuguese feitor, a factor, a superintendent of trade; the chief European at a 

 subordinate settlement. On Java it often means the resident or chief civil authority. 



Pétot, any fruit which is not full formed, not well developed, thus stunted , and in this 



sense is sometimes applied to animals which are poor and small. 

 Pëtot, to piek out. To disengage or disentangle anything from a place where it is fixed. 

 Evidently the same etymon as Tut, which has been in this instance contracted into 



