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P9Bi. b6ngkawang. A fern; gleichenia linearis;
also gleichenia hernanni.
b6ngkawan. A kind of lath used in
thatching; the lath used as a measure or
numeral coefficient for counting ataps. Tatak
buloh akan bengkawan: cut down bamboo to
make atap laths; Ht. P. J. P. Atap sa-bengkawan: a strip of thatching. Naik di-bumbong
atas bengkawan: to climb to the ridge pole
over the ataps; Sh. Kamp. Boy., 5. Also
mengkawan..S. b6ngkayang. Glutted with food; gorged;
stuffed.
bangkit. Rising; the act of rising, either
literally or metaphorically, as of a man rising
from the dead or of feelings surging up in the
heart. B. berdiri: to rise to an erect position. Berbangkit-lah ketakutan: a panic arose.
Di-bangkitkan Allah daripada-nya mnati: may
God raise him from the dead; Sh. May., i8.
Hantu b.: a sheeted ghost; = hantu bungkus,
q. v.
Kuweh b.: a cake made of arrow-root, flour,
eggs, white sugar, and suet, cooked in a
mould.
bangkut. Stunted in growth; insufficiently
developed in some respect. Tandok b.: with
a stunted horn,-used to describe a buffalo
one of whose horns is stunted as compared
with the other. Semanzbu b.: a Malacca cane
one of the joints of which is dwarfed as
compared with the others; a stick with two
joints very close together (a peculiarity
believed to bring good luck). Nyior b.: a
coco-nut tree part of which is stunted., bangkar. Toughness, hardness-applied to
durians and jack-fruits, the flesh of which will
not ripen into softness; stiff, of a dead body;
the rigor mortis.
Also mangkar.
j. bangkir. Bongkar bangkir: continually raising, heaping one thing over another; a
frequentative of bongkar, q. v.
S bbngkar. Spontaneous opening, usually by
the force of elasticity when pressure is
removed, as in the case of a spring uncoiling
itself; or as the folds of a parcel sometimes
rise on the string being cut; or, again, under
the influence of heat, as grain does when
boiled.

J. bongkar. Heaving up, raising anything
heavy from a lower to a higher level; digging
up; the turning up of soil in padi-planting.
B. kota: the digging up of a fort, the destruction of a fort; Sh. Panj. Sg. B. kubu:
id., e.g., by blowing up the foundations; Ht.
Abd., 67, 470. Bongkar dari dalamt tapa-nya:
to rise from a state of complete mental

abstraction; Ht. Ind. Meng. B. lain: (slang)
to get up and run; to make a bolt of it; Ht.
Isk. Dz.
Mari di-tarek dengan-nya akar,
Akar berikat di-tepi-nya bukit;
Di-dalam hati chinta berlengkar,
Jika di-bongkar terlalu sakit:
come and tear it out root and all, though its
root be fixed to the edge of the hill; love is
coiled around my heart and painful indeed
would it be to root it up; Sh. Pant. Shl., I2.
Membongkar: to haul up or heave up. M.
sauh: to haul up the anchor. M. bukit: to
dig up a hillock.
Bongkarkan: to have anything pulled up and
removed.
Terbongkar heaved away; hauled up.
Bongkar-bangkir: (I) turning everything in
a room topsy-turvy; (2) the recalling of past
favours by way of a reproach to a faithless
friend.
B. karang: the name of a fabulous skate
which could carry away reefs in its mouth.
b6ngkerang. A tree (a species of garcinia?);
also called mnengkerang.
Rumput lidah bengkerang: (Sungai Ujong) a
grass; fuiena glonmerata.
bangkas. A certain pattern (yellow flecked
with black) of plumage in a fighting-cock.
bingkas. I. Springing up, rising up;
recovery; elasticity; rapidity of recovery.
Jerat b.: a snare that has been sprung but has
caught nothing. Tiyada b.: he has no
recuperative power, of a man who is always
getting relapses of illness. B. bangun: to
spring up.
Yang hendak ka-darat lalu berbingkas,
Hendak berjalan sigera lekas:
those who wished to go ashore sprang past,
wishing to proceed with as much speed as
possible; Sh. Lamp., 42.
II. A technical term used in weaving; the
exhibition of the pattern on a stick with the
silk threads in various colours rolled round it.
bingkis. I. A present accompanying a letter;
a complimentary gift or offering sent by one
raja to another; a present sent-as distinct
from one presented by the giver in person;
Sej. Mal., 52, 150; Ht. Hg. Tuw., 72.

Bingkisan: id.; Sej. Mal., 49; Ht. Kal. Dam.,
436; Ht. Koris; Ht. Best.; Ht. Isk. Dz.; Ht.
Mar. Mah.; Sh. Panj. Sg.; Sh. Sri Bun., 75;
Sh. Bid., 88, I20.
II. Bungkus-bingkis: all kinds of parcelsan alliterative collective of bungkus, q. v.

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