530 A DICTIONARY SUNDANESE 



Wargu, a variety of dwarf palm. Raphis Pumila. 



Waringin, a handsome and ornamental tree, growing to a great size and afibrding a 

 dense shade impervious to the sun. This tree is always planted on the Alun-alun 

 or open space in front of the dweiling of a native chief, and is a raarkof authority. 

 It is the Ficus Benjamina. 



War is, Persian, a heir, inheritor, legatee. 



Warisan, anything left by a deceased person. Inheritance, legacy, 



Warna, colour, hue, description , kind, sort,shape. Warnna, C. 625, to paint; colour, 

 hue, tint, quality, property.; form, figure, sort, kind. Loba warna na, there are ma- 

 ny varieties. Aya sahraha ivarna, how many kinds are there. Warna na beureum, 

 the colour of it was red. Warna ieuyn, how many colours, how many shades! we 

 should say , what it means : you do not know your own mind , can't you say what 

 you mean. Wat warna! don't teil me your nonsense. 



Warta, tradition; report of olcl men. Wartata, C. 639, tidings, intelligence. Kula nimu 

 warta, I have heard (literally got or found) a tradition. 



Waru, name of a very common tree, which grows every where very readily from cut- 

 tings, or stakes stuck into the ground, It bears large yellow flowers in plenty, but 

 appears never to bring any seed to perfection, and such a thing as a seedling waru- 

 plant is unknown. It is not found wild in primeval forest. Called in Malay Baru, 

 Marsden , page 31 , Hibiscus Similis. 



Waru-laut, the sea-waru. A. variety growing near the sea-shore. Hibiscus Tiliaceus. 



Warung, a shop, a stall or booth for selling articles of food or of dress, or any other 

 goods. A market which has not the privileges of a regular pasar, but where the 

 people meet once a week for the purposes of petty trade. Marsden gives,at page 31, 

 Barong, a stall, booth, little shop, 



Wasajan, fair, impartial. Neither leaning to one party nor the other. 



Wasayat, Arabic, testament, last will, precept, mandate. Disposal of property before 

 death. 



Was wis, officious, wanting to do every thing. Said of a man who officiously pokes him- 

 self forward. 



Wat, a partiele extensively used but difficult to translate, and has som e affinity to the 

 Singhalse Wat, C. 618, which is a partiele of opinion and doubt, or, either: whether; 

 but in Sunda always preeedes the word with which it is connected, whilst in Sin- 

 ghalese it is suffixed. Wat naha, how comes that! how can that be? Aridititah wat 

 ngaliyeuh bai , and when he is ordered he only stares about hira. Wattopeupeuli ha 

 hami, he really did not teil me. Wat pavjang iyo ma, bello this one is long. 



Watang, the beam of a pair of scales. A balance beam. The shaft of a spear. Any 

 straight pole applied to any use. 



Wat ara, probably, to judge from appearances, apparently. Watara na bai, hanto daik 

 mêré , to judge from appearances he does not intend to give any. Watara hadé deui 



