374 A DICTIONARY SUNDANESE 



Pias, pale and delicate; looking unwell about the face. 



Pibaya-ëun, sometliing which will cause disaster. 



Pibibiteun, sometliing to serve as seed. Grain to be planted. 



Pichahan, a term used in rice milis to express the husking of the grain, — from the 

 Malay word Pichah, broken. Pichahan pare , to break open the husk from the grain 

 in grinding paddy. 



Picha-piring, name of a large shrub with pure white flowers. Gardenia florida. More 

 frequently called kacha- piring. Picha piring sounds like Malay and would literally 

 mean „broken plate," as if the white flowers were like broken bits of pot stuck upon 

 the tree. The word Kacha or Picha, however, is most likely derived from the 

 Sanscrit word Pichcha, C. 392, a jasmine, from the white colour and sweetscent of 

 the flowers, and the plant was very likely introduced from India. May not Piring 

 perhaps be part of the verb Piranaiva, C. 405, to comb , to dress the hair with a 

 comb,— and thus the jasmine used in dressing the hair. The Malays have evidently 

 seized upon the words as resembling Picha-piring ^ broken pot , whereas they in real- 

 ity mean : jasmine for putting in the hair. In Malay it is also called Sang klapa, 

 which may allude to its being hid amongst the hair. 



Pichara, a lawsuit, any question to be discussed. Gedong pichara , the town-hall, a 

 court-house. Kudu di pichara, we must discuss the matter; a lawsuit must be in- 

 stituted. Probably derived from Achara, and the Polynesian Pi before it. Achara, 

 C. 61, an established rule of conduct, an ordinance, an institute; a precept. 



Pichëun, to throw away; to fling away; to get rid of; to discard, to put away. Pi- 

 chëun ha jaah , throw it far away. Ewé na geus di picheun , he has flung away his 

 wife (or been divorced from her), 



Pichis, any small coin or money. Originally meant the China cash with square hole in 

 the centre. Called also Kupang. To bogah pichis, I have no money. 



Pichung, name of a tree, Pangium edule; has large brown nuts from which an inferior 

 dark coloured lampoil is extracted. 



Pidangdanëun, materials ; tackle , gear. 



Pi-éwé-ëun, a woman to make a wife of. Aya loba pi-éwé-eun nu ngora di lumber éta, 

 there are lots of young girls to make wives of in that village. 



P i g a s o 1 , a sort of tiger trap , being tvvo pinang or other straight trees , set side by 

 side , at an angle with the ground , with one end on the ground and the other hear- 

 ing the bait, a lump of flesh , so fixed to a doorway erection , that the tiger creeping 

 along the pinang sterns and pulling at the bait, Iets the whole fall, and he himself 

 is caught on spears or sharpened bambus set below. 



Pigati-ëun, a difficulty, a hindrance, an impediment. Anything which causes difficulty. 



Pihadé-ëun, sometliing which will turn out well; amelioration. Lain pihadé-eun, that 

 will never do; that will not answer. 



Pihané-an, an instrument with upright stanchions, about a foot high, and which can be 



