378 A DICTIONARY SUNDANESE 



Pitu, seven. Properly Javanese, but is sometimes heard in composition. Vide Na-as 



or Na-as pitu. 

 Pitua, instructions, orders of the elders; instructions hancled down from father to son. 

 Pitu win, goods or property earned by our own means, by our own exertions, not in- 



herited from others. Bogah na piluivin, he owns it by liaving worked for it, or 



earned it. 

 Piwarang, to order, to command. To send on a message. 

 PI ér ét, name of a place and district in het province of Mataram near Jugjakarta, where 



there is an old palace of the former sovereigns of Java. 

 Plok, the idiomatic expression of any small object falling to the ground , and in so doing 



making a small report. 

 Po, a chinese game, a way of gambling. 

 Pochong, a quantity of paddy tied up in some regular and even weight, usually 8 



catties. Two Pochongs make one Gédéng. 

 Pochot, fallen out, slipped out. Displaced. Dismissed from an employment. 

 Podang, withered, died away, faded , scorched up. 

 Podol, excrement, dung, — a very coarse word. 

 Po-ék, dark, obscure. Anything which causes perplexity. 

 Pogor, the abrupt termination of a hill, where it suddenly ends, and the land beyond 



is Ie vel. 

 Poh o, to forget. Polio di éra, forgets modesty. Ulah poho, don't forget. 

 P oh por, name of a bird. 

 Poh por, the stock of a gun. 

 Poi, day, daytime — 24 hours. Sabralia poi, how many days. Mata poi, the eye of the 



day^; the sun. Sometimes Poi alone is used for the sun. Bang at amat p>oi na, 



the sun is excessively oppressive. 

 Poikën, to put out in the sun. To exposé to the sun's rays. 

 P o j o k , a recess ; a distant out-of-the-way place. 

 Pok, the idiomatic expression of speaking, giving utterance, of opening the mouth to 



speak. Poh bai lémék , and opening bis mouth he spoke. Gerrah pok kunaun, be 



quick and speak, why not. 

 Pok al, a person's own act, his own fault; our own individual work or deed. No one 



else to blame. Sia chelaka-an pokal ku manéh bai, that you have got an accident 



is your own deed , or fault. Sawah iyo pokal sorangan , this sawah is my own from 



having made it (not bought or mhérïted it). 

 Pokék, short trousers , not reaching to the knees. Most probably derived from the words 

 Puk'kék , which you sometimes hear the natives make use of to denote the bursting 

 of old trousers, when sitting down. Pukj^ squat, Kck^ torn. 

 Pok o, or di pok o, to inject or squirt at into a hole. To poke at in a hole. Lauknya- 

 lindung di na chadas kudu di poko , the fish hides itself among the rocks, and must 



