Some More Malay Words. 



By R. 0. Wixstedt. 



I venture to suggest Sanskrit derivations for — 



Malini, in the name Wan Malini in the Sejarah Melayu, the 

 name of one of the daughters of Demang Lebar Daun. 

 Malini (Skt.) = ' garlanded/" 



Siamang f the black long-armed Gibbon, Symphalangy^ 

 syndactylies/ Dutch dictionaries throw no light on the 

 word. This ape occurs only in the Malay Peninsula and 

 Sumatra, but must have struck the attention of strangers. 

 May it not have acquired a Skt. name in the days of 

 Hindu predominance? Syama = 'black/ and syamdnga 

 ' black-bodied/ 



Ensrlish dictionaries have not made it clear that in the name 

 uiar chintamani "a snake which brings success in love/ 

 chintaraani = the ' wishgeni/ the Hindu 'philosophers 

 stone.'* said to have belonged to Brahma, who is himself 

 sometimes called by the name. 



Kedah is sometimes called Zara'vn Twain. In Persian 

 Zarnln - •country* and Toran ' Tartary ' or 6 Turkestan'. 

 Probably the name is due to wilful or unintelligent iden- 

 tification of Kedah with some place mentioned in an 

 Hikayat. 



Similarly Perak is called Kustan Zoriari. Possibly Zorian 

 is a corruption of the word Zuzan, an ancient city in Khu- 

 zistan. But anyhow the name Kustan Zonan is likely to 

 be due to some ' romantic ' identification. 



Menyeroka i to open up a country, making rice-fields.'* X.S. 



menchelaga: — ** orang menchelaga' - ' person next in suc- 

 cession to an office, heir [bakal)/ 



These two are Negri Sembilan words, the first in common 

 use : the second found in T71u "M/iiar. 

 ■ diang 'become a spirit." a Selangor word said to have a 

 Sumatran origin. 



Lenggara, helenggara 'to cherish, tend/ " Alean Raja Fa- 

 timah tiada-lah Jcelenggaralcan anaJeanda baginda Baja 

 Abdul-Jalil iiu Ugi" Sejarah Melayn (Eom. ed.). Vol. 

 II. p. 260. 

 endul (cf. Khassi dot-dot) 'a swing support, a hammock, 

 cradle" = Skt. hindola 'a swing, a swinging cradle or 

 hammock/" ( , '\Le handout qui es sembable a une litiere. 

 soutenu sur les epaules'* — Kitab Ajaib a'l-Hind. 1013 

 AD.). 



Jour. Straits Branch R. A. Soc, No. 80, 1919. 



