418 A DICTIONARY SüNDANESE 



Sakti, supernatural power. The power possessecl by the people of olcl before their con- 

 version to Mahomedanism. Sakti, C. 693, strength, power, prowess. 



Saku, a pocket, — probably the Dutch Zak, a pocket. 



Sakuliah, the entire, the whole total. See Kuliah. 



Sa la, interval, space between. Any intermediate time or space. Sala mangsa, out of 

 season; at au unseasonable time of year. Sala occurs in the composition of proper 

 names. Salatiga has probably some reference to a time of year intermediate with the 

 Musim katiga or third season , which is the dry season , or when the dry weather 

 frequently occurs in intervals. 



Sala, by way of exception. Sala sa ordng , any one man of a multitude, one by way 

 of exception. Sala siji, any one; it matters not whom or which. Sala, probably 

 derived from Sa, one, by means of — la, lah , derived from Alali in Malay , over- 

 come, conquered, beaten. This Alah is heard in the Malay Kalah, worsted , beaten, 

 discomfited; but Alah in this sense does not now exist in the Sunda. 



Salada, European, salacl, lettuce , watercresses. 



Sala da chai, water salad, watercress; — grows in mountain streams. 



Sa lah, wrong, faulty, erroneous. A fault, crime, offence; error, mistake, transgression. 



Salahkën, to put at fault, to ascribe fault to any one. To incriminate. 



Salak, name of a bushy prickly shrub. Salakka Edulis; has a fruit covered with im- 

 bricated scales. 



Salak, name of a mountain, a little to the south of Buitenzorg, about 7000 feet high. 

 Salak is probably derived from the idiomatic word Lah, to make a noise, or cry 

 out, and is heard in Ngelah, to yelp, in Sunda. Salak in Malay is to bark, to yelp. 

 Thus a person getting in contact with the plant , which is so full of sharp thorns , 

 would be apt to get wounded and cry out. May we from this meaning of yelping, 

 barking or growling, infer that in former times the Gunung Salak was in a constant 

 state of eruption and so merited this name. A solfatara, to this day, is still in active 

 existense on its Western flank, but the main mass of the mountain has long be in 

 quiescence , and from Buitenzorg it may be seen that a large breach exists on its 

 northern side , like a break in a tea-cup , and which , at some unknown period , no 

 doubt, was caused by a paroxysmal blow up of the mountain. 



Salaka, silver. In Sunda also exists the more common word Pérak för silver, which 

 is pure Polynesian. 



Salaki, a husband. This is a strong case showing the combination of the Sanscrit Sa, 

 which see, with a pure Polynesian word — Laki, man. 



Salaksa, ten thousand , 10,000. See Laksa, 



Sa lam, name of a forest tree, Myrtus Cymosa , or Syzygia Cymosa. Leaves and bark eaten. 



Sa lam, Arabic, salutation , peace. The word occurs in the following Arabic expression, 

 which natives make use of on certain formal occasions, when they meet and salute 

 each other. The first person who speaks says: Salam aleiknm, peace be unto you, 

 on which the other replies: Aleikum salam, unto thee is peace. 



