388 A DICTIONARY SUNDANESE 



cupation is fetching water. Aya nu purah, there are suclifolks! sucli tliings do happen ! 

 Oiooh nu purah hadê , there are none by chance good. 



Pur ai, broken in pieces, pounded up, smashed, as a clod of earth , a lump of sugar 

 or the like. 



Puraikën, to break up small. To dash to pieces. 



Pura-pura, shamming, feigning, pretending. 



Purasani, fine tempered steel. The loadstone, probably from being app.liecl to a bit of 

 steel. This word is probably the sarae as Khorasani, Marsden, page 125, Persian, 

 fine tempered steel of Khorasan. 



Pu rek, short hold of a rope, — the reverse of Lair or Layer. Short in the hold (by a 

 rope). Tali na purek teityn , the rope is too short. UlaJi purek teuyn , don't hold so short. 



Purilkën, to twist as a rope or bit of string. To twist or turn round anything. To 

 twirl. Purilkën cheuli na, twist bis ear for him. 



Pur ut, name of a tree. Artocarpus Glauca. 



Purwa, old, ancient; in the commencement. Haji Purwa , the ancien t Haji, — is a per- 

 son who occurs in the history of Pajajaran. See Kaffles 1 vol. 2, page 97. Kiyo 

 purwa na, in this way it was originally or anciently. Purioa, C. 410, first , prior, 

 former, preceding, initial. Eastern Purwana originally. 



Purwadadi, name of the chief place in Grobogan , East from Samarang. It is situated in 

 a low flat country often covered with inundations in the wet monsoon , and from this 

 circumstance may have derived its name. Purioa, C. 416, first, prior, former, pre- 

 ceding, initial. Udadhi, C. 76, the sea, the ocean: formerly a sea; the pristine 

 sea. The word udadhi in composition loses the initial U as in Mahodadhi , C. 534, 

 the Ocean, from Maha, great, Udadhi, sea. 



Purwakala, in ancient times, of old. 



Pusaka, inheritance, hereditary property or rights, heir-looms. Patrimony. Pu from 

 Puwa, C. 411, former, prior, ancient. Saka, C 691, bis, bis own, ones own. — 

 Thus ancient possessions or ones own from olden times. 



Pusaran chai, a whirlpool. Pusar in Malay, Marsden 237, to turn borizontally (as 

 a mill stone). To turn (as water in a whirlpool). 



Pus ing, giddy, dizzy. To revolve , to turn round, to twirl. Involved in business ; taking 

 much trouble with any matter. To daikken pusing , he will not trouble himself about it. 



Puspa, name of a forest tree, very common at Jasinga; does not grow under an elevation 

 of 600 or 800 feet above the sea. Schima Noronhae. The name is Sanscrit and is 

 found in Clough , page 412/13, Pushpa or Puspa, a flower. The pure white floivers 

 of the Sunda puspa are found scattered under the tree, at intervals, throughout the 

 whole year. Puspa occurs frequently in the composition of proper names , where it 

 has evidently the meaning of flower. 



Pu tal, name of a weed growing in the humahs; it has a thick fleshy leaf and dies or withers 

 with difficulty, even when put up on the stump of a tree, especially if the weather is wet. 



