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Beka. 

 Eekal. 

 Bekas. 

 Belimbixg Kris. 



Bexar. 



Bengkeng. 



Berbewah. 

 Berhuma. 



Beri 

 Berlaga. 



BlCHARA. 

 BOJI'NG. 



Bong. 



BUAH. 



Buas. 



BlJJANG. 



Ber-beka flirting, carrying on an intrigue. 



Common colloquially for food, provisions. 



Bekas Toll Kweng, the ex-Penghulu. 



The Kelantan name for the fruit called 

 belimbing manis in Pahang, because it is 

 used for cleaning the blade of a Icris. 



Orang kebenaran = orang bunian, the good 

 fairies in the jungle. Orang kebeneran 

 is also a common euphemism for Govern- 

 ment servants, especially Police: cp. 

 orang tengali. 



pron: bekeng: fierce, irascible, of men as 

 well as animals. 



To give a wake (kenduri) for the dead. 



Eice planted on a cleared patch of jungle, 

 distinct from tugalan (q.v.), although 

 the method of planting on each is the 

 same. 



Pembrian liidup = liebali, a gift inter 

 vivos. 



Not confined to the fighting of large ani- 

 mals. In fact berlaga ay am is more 

 commonly heard than menyabong. Ber- 

 laga angin, to get on well with a person. 

 Tiada berlaga angin, " I can't stand 

 him." 



Bichara mat, a civil case. 

 Bichara jenaiah, a criminal case. 

 Herat bichara, to give judgment. 



Hair brushed with a parting : =suak, ber- 

 kerol (Johore). 



A cock-pit. 



Dua buali rumah does not necessarily mean 

 two separate houses (which would be 

 indicated by the use of suku) but two 

 divisions or rooms of what we should call 

 the same house, separated by an un- 

 covered passage (jemuran). 



Besides its ordinary meaning c fierce/ 

 c wild ' of animals, baas is used of a 

 naughty mischievous child. Applied to 

 grown up persons it means immoral. 



The usual word for widow: janda is rarely 

 used. 



R. A. Soc, No. 74, 1916. 



