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)-. b6nd6rong. The passages connecting one
hall of state with another. Balairong
bUnderong sa-ribu: a group of a thousand
audience halls-a figure of speech for a huge
palace; Ht. Koris., 3; Ht. Ind. Meng., I32.
Also bandong..V. bandang. Ikan bandang: a fish (unidentified); Sk. Ik. Trub., I9.. banding. Match; comparison; the comparison of two similar objects; cf. tanding.
Tidak sa-tanding, tidak sa-banding: not comparable in shape nor comparable in quality.
Tiyada banding-nya: incomparable; peerless;
matchless; Sh. Bid., io. Tiyada tolok bandingnya: id.; Ht. Gul. Bak., 75. Tiyada tara
banding-nya: id.; Bint. Tim.,I3 March, 1895.
Tiyada berbandingan: id.; Ht. Ind. Nata.
Bandingkan: to place side by side for comparison; to compare two similar objects with
a view to discovering differences; Ht. Abd.,
I5I. Menbandingkan: id.; Ht. Abd., I52.
_i. bandong. I. A pair; a couple; a connecting link constituting two objects a pair.
Sap rti telor duwa sa-bandong, pechah satu pechah
keduwa: like two yolks in one shell; break
one, and both are broken; Prov.
Balai b.: a double hall in a palace; two
connected halls; Sh. Panj. Sg. Cf. balai
bUnderong.
Perahu b.: a boat for river travelling.
Rumah sa-bandong: connected houses.
II. A cock; Ht. Koris., Ht. Ind. Meng; =
mandong.

B. madu manchong: a cross-beam which has
its corner cut off at an angle of 45 degrees so
as to enable it to join on to another crossbeam similarly shaped, but at right angles to
it in general direction.
Pak si-bendul: a fool; Kl.
xJ~ band6la or b6nd6la. Eur. A bale; a bundle;
Ht. Abd., 343; the largest measure in estimating amounts of thread, cf. tukal; a piece of
cloth used for making a bundle; a wrapper..lJ bfnddlam. (Daik.) A vessel made of a
coco-nut shell cut into two (unequal) parts,
the smaller serving as a cover or lid.
j-g. bandan. I. Metallic taste; K1.
II. The island of Banda in the Moluccas.
III. Ikan bandan: a fish; chrysophrys hasta.. bandu. [Skr. bandhu.] A friend; a companion; an associate.
g- bindu. I. A turning-lathe. Chinchin b.:
(I) a ring with a machine-worked design on it
(J. I. A., Vol. III., p. 448); (2) the ring placed
on wood which is being turned.
II. (Penang.) Passionate feeling; = rindu.
LJ$) bundfik. Arab. Bastard.
bgnduwan. (Singapore.) [Hind. bandhwan.]
A convict-applied to the old Indian convicts
only.

0o.1 b6ndeh.
be'nde?

(Singapore.) To sell; from Jav.

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b&ndang. An irrigated rice-field. In Malacca
the term is applied to a stretch of many
holdings or sawahs; v. sawah. In Kedah
the word sawah is practically unknown and
bendang is used in all cases. Tanah b.:
(Kedah) padi land. Kerja b.: padi planting.
B. bakau: the padi-fields nearest the fringe of
mangrove by the sea.

b6ndong. A dam; a dyke.

bundong.
gondong?

A form of cattle disease, K; =

\aJ. bendahara. [Skr. bandahdra.] The title of
a very high official in a Malay state-usually
the highest in power outside the royal family;
theoretically, the Treasurer.
Datok Bendahara memnerentah negegri.
Laksamana memerentah laut:
the Dato Bendahara rules the land, and the
Laksamana rules the sea; J. I. A., Vol. I.,
p. 150.
Datok Bendahara Pahang: the Bendahara of
Pahang;-the old title of the ruler of Pahang
who was theoretically bendahara to the old
line of Malay Sultans who ruled in the Lingga
Archipelago; Ht. Abd., 456.
Perbendaharan: a treasury; Sej. Mal., Io.
Cf. bendahari.
The Queen (of a pack of cards) is sometimes
called the bendahara by Malays; see also
imunte-ri.
)\.lJ b6ndahari. Skr. bandahdri. ] Treasury
officers; Sej. Mal., 95, 96. Penghulu b.: a
principal Treasury officer under the bendahara.
Cf. bendahara.
c-O b6nde. Jav. A small gong, Ht. Sg. Samb.
Also bendir.

jJ bandok. Nervous or self-conscious.
enJs b6ndok. A chopper; C. and S.,. bondok. A goitre; better b~gok.
J bandul. Eng. The pendulum of a clock.
j bbndul. A cross-beam between the pillars
upon which the flooring of a Malay house
rests; the threshold. Masok ka-bUndul: to
cross the threshold; Ht. Hg. Tuw., I9....