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Salamat, Arabic, prosperity, -welfare, safety. Safe, prosperous. In Sunda it also im- 

 plies: attended with blessing, uninjured, by divine favour. Salamat datang , is a 

 friendly way of welcoming the arrival of any one , and may be rendered: may a 

 blessing be upon your arrival. So also Salamat jalan is a benediction at departure: 

 may a blessing be upon your going away. 



Sa lang, slings for carrying a heavy weight. A circle of matted liane or rope suspended 

 to each end of a pole for the purpose of carrying anything. 



Salapan, nine. Literally: one folded down. See Lep ~ Salepan. The fingers of the 

 two hands representing Ten, one folded down and Nine remain. Salapan lias., 19. 

 Salapan puluh , 90. 



Salaparan, one of the names given to the island of Lombok, which is likewise cailed 

 Sasak. Sala , C. 719, a house, a hall; a rock, a rocky mountain. Paran, C. 

 362, preeminence; final beatitude, Nirioana. Thus: the abode of bliss, or the moun- 

 tain of final beatitude, after the great mountain cailed the Peak of Lombok. The Hindu 

 worshippers who are the chiefs and governers of Lombok , descended from Bali , 

 may have given their island this high sounding name, retaining the Polynesian position 

 of the words Sala and Paran, and not making it Paransala, which the more orthodox 

 Sanscrit form would require. 



Sala put, as tall as a man; a mans height. Mostly used to express the depth of a hole. 

 Liang na leuioih salaput , the hole is more than a man's height. Geus cli halian meu- 

 nang salaput, I have dug it out to my owii depth, — so deep that the top of my head 

 is even with the top. 



Sala sa, Arabic, Tuesday. 



Salasah, a tracé or mark; tracé of what we have done. Micheun salasah, to destroy 

 the tracé ; to put on a wrong scent. To mislead. 



Salasar, a large mat or Kajang , made of Changkwang leaves for temporary use. 



Sa lat, Arabic, the singular of Salawat, a blessing, a prayer, a benediction. 



Salat-istika, praying for rain. Prayers ofr'ered up in times of unusual drought, asking 

 for rain. "Words are evidently Arabic. 



Salatiga, name of a place and district inland of Samarang. Sala means a-n interval, 

 a short space between. Katiga is the dry season. The constructive Ka of which being 

 elided, we have Sala-tiga, implying that the dry season keeps recurring at intervals, 

 or with short spaces of wet between. The grouncl on the flanks of the mountain 

 Merbabu is very sandy and droughty, so that, with short intervals of dry weather, 

 the soil becomes quite parched up and dusty, the dry season or Katiga appearing 

 thus frequent] y to return and disappear again, 



Sala ton, Delirium. Violent and mad with illness. 



Salatri, a sudden and violent fit of illness, whereby the patiënt becomes senseless. Cailed 

 at Batavia Chika, which according to Crawfurd means: the cholic; gripes. 



Salawat, Arabic, prayers, the plural of Salat , a blessing, a prayer. 



