24 MALAY TUG VERBS. 



217. Bagei kuniet dengan hapor. 



"Like turmeric when it meets lime." 



A simile illustrative of the close sympathy and feeling* 

 existing between two intimate friends. {soma saved I or 

 sama sajodo.) Malaj T s say that the prepared lime iised with 

 betelnut, if it is touched with turmeric, is at once stained 

 with a bright vellow colour which spreads throuoh the whole 

 mass. 



218. Ber-telan-telan bagei panas di belukar. 



" Striking unequally like sunshine in a thicket." See 



No. 189. 



Ber-lelan-telan, marked in spots, unevenly or unequally ; 

 e. g. a paper stained with oil spilt upon it may be said to 

 be bertelan-telan . 



219. Bagi hapak masok meminang. 



u Like an axe undertaking marriage negotiations." The 

 axe seems to be a popular figure to denote rough, coarse 

 conduct. The extreme of roughness is reached when the 

 uncompromising instrument is imagined engaging in affairs 

 in which domestic diplomacy and politeness exhaust them- 

 selves. 



220. Bagei jampoh Ica-siangan hari. 



" Like an owl in the day time." 



To sit mute and foolish, like a man who has suffered a 

 public rebuke in the Majlis, or assembly, for improper speech 

 or conduct. 



221. Bingong ta'dapat diajar, cherdek ta'dapat diikv.t. 



" In his folly he is not to be corrected, in his shrewdness 

 he is not be followed." Or, less literally, 



"Impatient of instruction where he is ignorant, and an 

 unsafe guide where he possesses shrewdness." 



A proverbial phrase to describe ( and condemn ) a t}-pe 

 of character to be met with among Malays as among other 

 nations. 



222. Bersarak saras.i hilang, bercherei saras.i mail. 



" Parting feels like loss, separation feels like death," 



