418 A DICTIONARY SUNDANESE 



is not the case, tbough in Malay, the name for the Sunda is Walu, Sesamum Indi- 

 cum, a plant from the seeds of wich an oii is made, is called Wijen, which is Wiji-an 

 ^j Wijén; and Biji alone is, a seed. Hiji or Biji for seed is not used in Sunda, and 

 it is strange how they should have adopted a word of Sanscritic origin from the Malays , 

 who do not use it in the peculiar ordinary sense of enumeration, though Sa biji or 

 Satu biji is current there , alluding to any small bodies or seeds. 



Sai-itan, di Saiïtan, to reset a trap which bas got out of order; which bas sprung 

 up like a Bachang and not caught anything. 



Sa-ir, a metrical composition. A poem. A tale told in verse. 



Sajarah, legends, bistory; a chronicle. Origin. 



Sajati, a word which occurs only in Jampé or incantation, but to which no clear mean- 

 iug is attached. Crawfurd gives Sajati, truly , veritably. Jati, C. 209, birth, 

 production; reunion of the soul with some other body. Kind, class. Eace, family. 

 Sa, one, with. Sajati, of a common origin. 



Saji, a cover to put over cooked provisions, sweetmeats and the like, raostly called Tu- 

 rub saji, the saji cover. It is made of Pandan leaves, in an oval shape , or like 

 half of a hollow globe. The Turub saji is generally painted red , and answers to our 

 dish-cover. It is probably derived from sajja, C. 695, prepared , got ready; adorned , 

 ornamented; or sajjita, C. 695, armed, accoutered; dressed, decorated, ornamented. 

 And in Malay, Marsden, 157, is: to prepare or serve up (victuals). In Crawfurd: 

 to prepare and lay out an entertainment. 



Sak, Arabic, ungodly; disobedient to the orders or wil of God or of parents. Not clear, 

 not correct and clear in what we do. Jélema sak, an ungodly, or undutiful person. 



Saka, the era of Saka, commencing 78 years after Christ , and is the one in common 

 use in Ceylon. Clough, 723. Aji saka, is the person who is supposed to have given 

 origin to this era, which was also introduced into Java, and is still continued as the 

 Javanese era, in contradistinction to the Christian era. Saka is also, C. 691, bis, 

 bis own, one's own , and Aji saka will thus imply: the Aji, or distinguished person; 

 one not troubled with a mundane soul, who is of himself, as it were self existing. 

 Vide A j i. 



Saka, name of a fish in the rivers and in ponds. Barbus Armatus. 



Sakali, once, a single time. 



Sakali, at all; very. Forms the superlative degree. Utterly, entirely. To bogaJi sakali, 

 I have none at all. Bagus sakali, very good, most good ^ best. En kapanggili sakali, 

 I only once met bim. 



Sakali an, by the same opportunity; at the same time. 



Sakali- kali, at all, by any means, ever. To nyokot sakali-kali aclian, I never took 

 any on any occasion. 



Saka lik Sn, to do at the same time. To make or do together — along with something else. 



Sak ar at, Arabic, on the point of death; at the last gasp. In the agony of death. 



