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A KELANTAN GLOSSARY. 



IVELEFEK. 

 IVELIK. 



IVELINTASAN, 

 IVELOK. 



Kemesek. 



Kenaling. 



Kenderi. 



IiEPALA. 



Kepixg. 

 Keraja. 



IVERAT. 

 IvEREK. 

 IVERJA. 



Kerto. 



IyESOK. 



Ketam. 

 Keterai. 



IyETING. 



Khabar. 



KlRA. 



With sticking out ears. 



To return. B uleli kelik = to get back 

 (something that was lost). 



Kena kelintasan = ierkena, is to he struck 

 by an evil spirit of any kind, e.g. resident 

 in a well or ditch which one passes. 



To call out (= terial). Sa-jauh mana ru- 

 mah kita dengan rumah din? Kelok 

 dengar. " How far is your house from 

 his? Within earshot." 



Easily done, not difficult. 



Trembling from fear, = menggelitar. 



3 cents (not a coin) : Sa-kenderi dim, a 

 paraphrase for "cheap." 



Sa-kepala, a team or troop : less common 

 than sa-puak. 



Sal u keping = a 'pitis' (q.v.). 



= chuhaij duty, tax. 



Bir/iara, to give judgment: keratau a judg- 

 ment. 



(= Rapat) too close together, e.g. of trees 

 too closely planted. 



(Besides "work) the usual name for any 

 kind of entertainment (kenduri)" — tuan 

 kerja, the giver of the entertainment. 



The wooden clapper or hell around the neck 

 of buffaloes cattle or sheep ( = kero ri- 

 ch ong ) . 



- Kesak (F. M. S.) to move up, make 

 room. 



Mengetam padi, the usual word for harvest 



(= Phg. mennai). 

 An acid fruit, something between a jambu 



and a belimbing. 

 = Knee of a lembu or kerbau- (not Tendo 



Achillis). (2) Mengeting = to claim. 



' Ta'khabar' unconscious; more common 

 than " ta' sadar." 



A very common Kelantan word: it is used 

 of the preliminaries before money chan- 

 ges hands in any kind of transaction. 

 E.g. " kira b eras" - to see about buy- 

 ing rice. (2) Masok kira, to interfere, 

 to be a busy body. 



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