A VOCABULARY OF BRUNET MALAY. 
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72. 
Berakas. 
Numerical coefficient, used w.ithnibongs. 
Cf. berkas, a tied bundle. 
73. 
Beriak. 
= berak, defecate. 
74. 
Beribadak. 
A common riverside tree ( Cerbera odol- 
lam) with white flowers, known in 
the F.M.S. as pompong, pong pong 
and buta-buta. 
74 6. 
Beribun. 
To toy, trifle. 
75. 
Berimit. 
Slowly, gradually : aging pasang ber- 
imit, the last of the flood. 
76. 
Berkameh. 
s. 
Vide No. 182 , kameh. 
7'7. 
Bernanang. 
Berenang, to swim. 
77 b. 
Bersaki. 
To copulate (of birds and beasts). 
77 b. 
Berselat. 
Resist, oppose, combat. 
78. 
Beruwar. 
s. 
A go-between, tout. 
79. 
Biabas. 
s. 
A species of jambu (guava). (In the 
F.M.S. jambu biji). 
80. 
Bidai . 2 
The ribs. 
81. 
Bidar. 
s. 
A built up dug-out, the type of boat 
most commonly used in Brunei. 
82. 
Biding. 
s. 
Sharp ridges on the tail of a crocodile 
and certain fish. 
83. 
Bilak. 
s. 
Bilak mata, a parasite found on man- 
groves and other trees. 
84. 
Biloyan. 
An edible marine bivalve resembling 
Unio. 
85. 
Bingkai. 
s. w. 
The strip of beading round the gunwale 
of a bidar, boat. 
86. 
Bingkong. 
The covered portion at the end of a 
jambatan. 
87. 
Binuang. 
w. 
A tree of light wood, suitable for floats. 
88. 
Bipang. 
s. 
A kind of sweet made of rice and sugar. 
89. 
Birah. 
S'. 
Harlot, (from the properties of the 
daun birah, a Cladium leaf). 
75. Cf. Dayak mimit “small” (adj.) or “slightly” (adv.) and Malay 
demit. 
78. Hindustani. Sarawak and Malay Peninsula = “pimp.” 
80. Bidai, “a long narrow strip of rattan such as is used in making 
mats or native blinds,” berbidai-bidai “in long thin strips” 
(W.). The Brunei Malay use is evidently an extension of this 
idea. 
82. Haynes translates it “shark’s fins and tails.” 
85. Also used in Dayak. 
87. Menuang in Sarawak Malay. 
88. Also lipang in Sarawak Malay. 
89. Perhaps better translated as “lecherous”, the equivalent of the 
Sarawak Malay word “lanji” or “kanji.” 
R. A. Soc., No. 83, 1921. 
