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Roman, the person , the body, personal air; kind, shape, appearance. 



Eombak, to demolish, to pull to pieces; to pull down, as a walled building. 



E o m b é h , the full blown flowers of the Honjé plant. 



Rombéng, torn, tattered. Jamang na rombéng, his jacket is torn. Boboho rombéng, 



a tattered rice basket, 

 Rompang, broken in a gap; the edge broken. Gunung rompang, a mountain with 



a split top or crest. When the cup of a crater has burst out, that is called rompang. 



Bédog na rompang, his chopper is broken in gaps, — the edge broken in gaps. Jéle- 



ma na rompang, a man who has lost some teeth. 

 Rond ah, Portuguese ronda , the round, the night watch. Military rounds. Patrol. Orang 



rondah , the men on watch at night» 

 Ronggéng, a public dancing girl; a woman of easy virtue. Pondok ronggéng , a house 



of ill fame; the place where the ronggéngs live. 

 Ronk ah, valliant, daring, courageous. A brave man who is supposed to be invulnerable. 

 Rong' od, the fruit of the Tepus plant. 



Rontog, what falls off, droppings. Pare rontog , the paddy which drops from the bun- 

 dies when moved. 

 Rontog, — as di rontog, to come upon suddenly; to catch by making a sudden spring. 



To surprise. Di rontog maung , he was caught by a tiger (springing upon him). 

 Rontogan, in grinding paddy , that part of the operation when the grain is separated 



from the straw. 

 R o n y o k , many in a heap ; in an assembly ; multitudinous. 

 Ronyom, to attack in numbers ; to assault; to kil!; to overpower. 1 

 R o p o n g , gaping ; standing open ; showing in an aperture. Ropong bai maryem di ka- 

 pal prang, the muzzles of the guns were seen in the man of war, — that is the open- 



ings of the muzzles were seen. Pager na ropong , the fence was gaping in holes. 



Hence Toropong, a telescope, being a tube to look through. 

 Roréng, striped like a tiger. Anjing si roréng, a striped dog. 

 Roris, to make an inventory of men and their goods. To take a census. 

 Rorod, run away with; stolen; eloped. Banda na di rorod, they ran away with his 



property. Aivéwé na di rorod, he eloped with the woman. 

 Rorog, a row or consecutive tier of beds in a sawah, or irrigated rice field. Sa rorog 



éia gaii di chai-yan, that row of sawahs it is difficult to get under water. 

 Eorogan, part of the native loom; the stand or piece of wood or thick bambu , on 



which the Barèra is thrown , as it is drawn out from the web. A row or tier in 



sawahs. 

 Roronggosan, to follow a woman from place to place and to hold private communi- 



cation with her. 

 Rorongko, a small temporary too-fall shed, put up in a hurry in a humah after burn- 



ing, before there has been time to make a proper saung , or shed. The rorongko is 



