44 SOME LEXICOGRAPHICAL NOTES. 



the phrases huda semberani, anak huda Parasi and kuda galak ke- 

 labu semberani anak huda Parasi: — The Eomanizer has wrongly put 

 kelak for galak and Perasi for Parasi, it should be noted. The 

 horse is one that tiada penah di-kandara'i manusia "has never been 

 ridden by man/' The passage makes it clear that reference is not 

 to a mythical steed but to an unbroken horse, of mixed breed: 

 4 anak Parasi ' = ' having a Persian sire ' only, while pure Persian 

 would be simply kuda Parasi. Paraci is the Tamil form of * Per- 

 sian', while the usual Malay form is disyllabic Parsi. Kelabu ' ash- 

 grey ' describes general])- the colour of mouse or wolf, but van 

 Ronkel thinks it may perhaps be used of ' bay ' horses. A half- 

 breed Persian horse would be quite likely in the Malay archipelago : 

 certainly horses were imported from India; even the word kuda is 

 the Sanskrit ghota in its Deccan form koda. 



Now in Tamil ' bay ' red is cem : — cembadai ' red hair,' cem- 

 balam ' yellowish fruits/ cemmari ' red short-haired sheep.' Again 

 there are two Tamil words puram and purani both meaning ' the 

 outside, bark, hide.' Cem + purani would properly become cembu- 

 rani = semburani = semberani: and the word would mean 'with 

 reddish hide, bay.' Perhaps the word occurs for the first time in 

 this passage form the "Chronicles of Pasai ;" if so, the unusual 

 Tamil form Parasi would lead us to expect almost any other un- 

 usual word in the sentence to have a Tamil form. Professor van 

 B'onkel's interpretation seems very plausible. 



In Be el LXVI the late Professor Ch. A. van Ophuijsen has 

 published lexicographical notes elicited by the appearance of Klin- 

 kert's Nieuw Maleisch-N ederlandsch Zakwoordenboek in 1910. It 

 is too long an article for me to notice any but a few points here. 

 He remarks that in the Sejarali Melayu we have a meaning of 

 nagara ' hill-top ' {nag a ' hill/ agra i top ') which has escaped lexi- 

 cographers : — di-ikut baginda ka-atas bukit, bertemu di-nagara 

 bukit itn. He surmises that padusi is derived from the Sk. viduski 

 'wise/ and peridi from the Sk. vriddhi \ growth, increase.' He 

 points out that in Minangkabau kain ainul-banat becomes kain 

 Indabanat, and Inda = Indera and suggests that it is a fabric labelled 

 with the name of some place like Inderawanat. The whole paper is 

 valuable to the lexicographer and corrects many errors of Klinkert, 

 even if some of the derivations suggested for words may be doubtful. 



On p. 422 Peel 68, derde Aflevering (1913) G. P. Ilouffaer 

 discusses the derivation of the words kaelii, cliengkurai and cltindai. 

 Klinkert interpreted kain kachi = 'hue shirting/ and cliaul he 

 derived from the Persian sal and muri from "moire" and Belati 

 from berhati! Prof. Kern (Bijd. Kon. Inst. 7, I p. 112) pointed 

 out iu 1903 that Malay cliaul and old Javanese chaiveli were derived 

 really from the Indian trading port " Chaul." Wilkinson derived 

 Belati from the Skr. vilayati, apparently printing " Skr." by a slip 

 for "Arabic/ 5 the Arabic being trilayati, walayti "of the mother- 

 land " and thence " European." Malay muri = muri* = molis = Jav. 

 mori " white calico.*" 



Jour. Straits Branch 



