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Ratib, the unanimous adoration of God by an assembly of devotees, as a mosque full 

 of people praying. Unanimous praise and thanks givirig to God. The word is Arabic; 



Ratna, a jewel, a gem, a precious stone. Ratna, C. 583, a jewel, a gem , anything 

 the best; or figuratively, the best of its species. 



Ratu, a prince, a sovereign. Ratu Pajajaran, the prince of Pajajaran. This title oi' 

 Ratu is given to the females of the royal family, as Ratu Kanchana, the golden so- 

 vereign, is the head wife of the emperor of Solo or Jugjokarta, — the empress, the 

 sultana. Radit, Clough 585, a king; also written Rada, and is the Elu form of 

 Raja. Ratu, on Bali is a title always given to princes in addressing thera , but as a 

 title before the name, it is only used for particular and eminent princes; FriedericH, 

 Bat. Trans. Vol. 23, page 33. Ratu might come from Rak, blood, Tuwa, old 

 ö Rahtn, ancient blood or descent. 



Ratus, hundred. Sa ratus, one hundred. Lima o-atus , five hundred. Probably derived 

 from Rait , to gather up. Tus or tutus , nicked bambu strings used in keeping tally, 

 A collection of such strings, when they amounted to one hundred. Crawfürd gives 

 Raivan , a term used in the tali or enumeration of certain objects , or cordage. 



Rau and Rauwan, to gather up, to collect, to piek up. Kadu di rau, it must be 

 picked up , collected. Rauwan Jcabéh, gather them all up. Raa-tus is thus, to col- 

 lect the tally slips, and each such collection may have been fixed at 100. 



Raut, to pare away, to smoothen off by paring with a knife. To whittle. To remove 

 all asperities, said especially of split bambu or rattan. The word Rotan in Malay 

 for rattan is no doubt derived from this verb, with the suffix an, and thus means 

 an object which is pared away , which is whittled , since to use rattan for the purpose 

 of tying, it must be split and the jagged edges pared off for use. Even to this day 

 you can often hear the natives of Borneo or Celebes call it Rautan. Though in Sunda 

 we have thus the etymon of the word, they have a peculiar word for rattan, which 

 they do not call Rotan or Rautan, but Roili, which sec-, 



Rawana, C. 593, the celebrated Raksha or giant king of Lanka or Ceylon , at the 

 time it was inhabited by the giant race. Rawana was slain by Rama in the wars which 

 he waged for the recovery of his wife Sita, whom Rawana had surreptitiously carried 

 off to his capital Lanka. He figured in the temples as a ferocious monster with ten 

 heads and twenty arms, in each of which he holds an instrument of war. 



Rawang, torn assunder, split or divided. Rawang-rawing , much torn or split asunder. 

 In Malay Rawang implies lattice work. See Karaiuang. 



Rawatan, to look after, to take care of; to cherish. Anale êwé kudu di raivatan, 

 children and wife must be cared for. 



Rawayan, one of the chief villages of the Bad ui people in South Bantam. Rawaya, 

 C. 587, sound, noise, sound in general. 



Rawé, a noose set to take deer. Such noose is larger than Rachik, which see, and is 

 not attached to any spring of woocl. 



