Some Rare Words, 



Kutaha ; nakas ; turap ; teterapan ; kop ; biram ; ganteh ; 

 Seri Menanti. 



By R. 0. WlNSTEDT. 



Kutaha. In the Hikayat Raja-raja Pasai (No. 66, March, 1914, of 



this Journal) there occurs a word oVO several times (pp. 30, 



35, 39, 41). Obviously from the contexts it is an interrogative 

 particle. Mr. Mead romanized it wrongly ketah : it is found 

 fully pointed in vowels — kutaha — in one of the 6 old Malay 

 MSS. in the Cambridge University Library; vide p. 38 of 

 Dr. Ph. S. van RonkeFs 'Account' of those MSS. in the 

 " Bijdragen tot de Taal- Land- en Volkenkunde van X. I. 6e 

 Vol. II." " Briefly " he observes, " after apa, mana, and ada- 

 kah, this interrogative is seldom wanting," in those MSS. He 

 suggests it may be compared with the Sundanese kutan. 



Nakas. On p. 31 of Mr. Mead's transliteration of the same work 



there occurs a word ^j*-^'' mengenakan sangga nakas beper- 



mat a. This word occurs also in a passage from the Bustanus- 

 salatin quoted by a Javanese scholar, Raden Dr. Hoesein 

 Djajadiningrat on p. 570 of the " Tijdschrift van bet Bata- 

 viaasch Genootschap, deel LVII, afl. 6." Batu puteh di-ukir 

 pelbagai xvarna dan nakas dan selimpat dan tembosa dan mega 



arak-arakan. Klinkert gives it as ^Vi It is possibly a 



motive in art, — where figures face one another perhaps : and 

 derived from the Arabic naks. 



Tut?ap. In Perak painted wicker-work panelling for houses is 

 called tepas berturap. In Achinese turab means to do masonry. 

 Turap occurs several times in the aforesaid passage from the 

 Bustanu s-salatin : — di-sisi gunong itu kandang baginda dan 



dewal kandang itu di-turap dengan batu puteh: sa- 



pohon nyiur gading bergelar Serbat Jinuri di-tambak dengan 

 batu berturap dengan kapur: jambangan batu ber- 

 turap. In one passage a variant MS. gives di-terapi for di- 

 turap; and in the same context as the above sentences occurs 

 dan ada-lah dewal yang di-dalam itu berteterapan batu puteh 



Jour. Straits Branch R. A. Soc, No. 75, 1917. 



