A D1CT10NARY SUNDANESE 



Marsden, page 199. God be thanked; so much the Letter. Sukur lamun daiavg , I 



sball be thankful if be comes. 

 Sul, Arabic, used in the composition of some names, is pröperly Zul. Zu, Arabic, Mars- 

 den, 141, baving, possessed of, endowed with. Iskander ZxCt Kuvnein, Alexander the 



two-borned. Tbis ZiCl is more commonly converted into Vul , see Dulpakar, Dul- 



kabidah, D u 1 h a j i. 

 Sul, tbe idiomatic expression for pusbing or poking anything forward into view. Sul 



bai ka hareup , forward be went iu front. Sul bai loang pérak mayar , poking out tbe 



silver money be paid. 

 Sula, aspit, a pale, a stake. Sula , C. 761, a weapon , a pike , a dart; an iron pin or spit. 

 Sulab, bald in tbe front of tbe head , but with hair bebind. Par.tially bald in front eitber 



naturally or by removing tbe hair a little on tbe forebead so as to show a fine brow 



as a mark of beauty. 

 Sulam, to replace seed in tbe ground wbere it bas failed to come up. ïo replace any 



plants wbich have died out. To embroider, evidently conveys tbe same idea as tbe 



Sulam of plants , xh stitcbing bere and tbere on clotb. 

 Sulangkar, name of a small tree or busb, Tbe wood is much used in tbe supers! itious 



invocations of tbe natives , and many wonderful properties are attributed to it. It is 



also called Ki-tua or Ki-tuiva, or the old one, or perbaps ratber the supernatural one, 



as Tuwa is the Malay for old, and not Sunda, wbich represents old by Kolot. See 



Tuwa. .The Sulangkar is the Lela Sambucina of botany. It bas berries some- 



what like the elder-tree in Europe , and hence Sambucina. 

 Sulap, to juggle, to perform sleight of hand. To do acts of legerdemain. Sulabha, 



C. 755. Su , easy. Lab ha , acquiring, easy, feasible, attainable. Tukavg sulap, 



a juggler. 

 S u lat ri, name of a tree, Apoterium Sulatri. From tbe small round fruits an oil may 



be expressed. 

 Sul ing, a musical pipe , a flute. Tiyup suling , to blow a pipe, to play on a fiute. 

 Sultan, Arabic, a sultan, a mahomedan prince. 

 Suluh, fire-wood. Sula, C. 755, a torch , a flambeau , a chool. Suluh in Malay, 



Marsden 193, a link, a torch (usually made of the bark of trees, narrow slips of 



bambu , or leaves of tbe cocoa-nut fastened togetber). 

 Sulur, a remplacent at work. A man sent by another to perform some public duty 



wbich was encumbent upon the sender. 

 Sumadang, name of one of the chief divisions of tbe Prianger Eegencies, and also name 



of tbe chief town. The Urn in tbis and tbe following words coming after the initial 



S is constructive, but the crude root cannot always be identified. It conveys an idea 



of similarity , of resemblance to what the word in its crude state implies. See Um voce. 

 S urn a dar, spread out, laid out. Dagangan geus sumadar di xoarong , the articles of trade 



were spread out in the market. 



