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R-ébu, thousand. Sa-rébu s 1000. Tilu rébu s 3000. See Séwu. 



Eëbut, to snatch, to seize hastily, to seize, to take by force. To scramble for anything. 



Main rebutan, to play at scrambling, — as the oppertunity is given to the natives by 



the Chinese once a year , on one of their festivals. 

 Réché, copper money. Doits. 

 Red, the idiomatic expression of tying tight, of drawing any rope or band close and well 



together. Red bai di talian, and they bound him tight. 

 Eëg, the idiomatic expression of stopping short when out walking, running, riding or 



the like. Unchal na reg ngarandeg , the deer sudclenly came to a stand still. 

 Régang, brushwood or small tangled bushes cut down ; boughs and tangled twigs or 



other vegetable matter , after they have been cut , laid against a fence , a buffaloe shed 



etc. to prevent thieves getting in. 

 Régang en, to throw Régang into water to prevent people from using casting nets to 



take fish. — Régang laid against any place. 

 Rëgas, brittle, easily breaking, readily snapping. Tali na regas , the rope ïs brittle. 

 Rëgëdëd, indicative of binding or fastening. Regeded bai di talian, hé bound him by 



putting a rope on him. 

 Regis, name of a small fish in rivers. The same fish is called Génggéhék at Buitenzorg. 

 Réhé, lonely, no one stirring, solitary. Hasup ha imah eukeur réhé, went into the 



house, at a time when no one was astir. Raha, C. 588, solitariness , privacy. 

 Rëjang, women who play on the Terebang and accompany it with dancing and singing, 



These are not common Ronggéngs, and occur in Bantam. Else where called Bedaya. 

 Rëjim, Arabic, stoned, pelted with stones; execrable, accursed, — Crawfurd. See Audabila. 

 Rek, the idiomatic expression of looking, of casting a glimpse. Rék ka luliur béh aya , 



and casting a look upwards, there it was. 

 Rékép, close joined, without any interstice. So close as not to allow the passage of water. 



Impervious. Keeping matters secret. Ayeuna bendungan na rékép, now the dam is 



closed up, or impervious. Pager na rékép, a fence which is so close set that no 



fowls or small animals can pass through. Rékép amat éta jélema bogah béja, how 



close that man is about the news. 

 Rem, the idiomatie expression for reaping as the natives do it , by snapping each indivi- 



dual straw , when cutting paddy with the Etém. R.hn bai di pibuatan , and seizing the 



ears they cut the paddy. Gerrah rem rem, go to work and cut (the paddy). Ruman, 



according to Crawfurd, is in Malay rice straw, which no doubt has its etymon in the 



Sunda Rem. 

 P^émbang, name of a Residency and chief place on the north coast of Java. 

 Rëmbës, oozing through or out as water. Water or liquid leaking and in small quantities. 

 Rem pan, fearful lest, in trepidation , in expectation of some accident occurring. Fiempan 



ku bisi , inggis ku sugan , fearful in case that , wavering with a perhaps ; — a native aphorism. 

 Rëmpëg, growing and thriving in numbers,™said of plants. Collected, — said of materials 



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