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BUWAH

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BOYAS

I.

oy buwah. A generic name for fruits; a spherical
or nearly spherical object; a descriptive prefix
to the names of objects of a more or less
spherical appearance; a numerical coefficient
prefixed to words signifying towns', countries2,
lakes 3, ships4, bowls5, fruits6, eggs7,
baskets8, shields9, buildings1o, mountains",
books I2, watches I3, doors I4, boxes I5, teeth 6,
carriages 7, cavities I8, stones I9, plates20, etc.
B. bedara: (I) A name given to a number
of fruits, see s. v. bedara; (2) a sweetmeat
made of tepong pulut and eggs, and served up
with sugar.
B. beras: a plant; chasalia curvifora.
B. batis: the calf of the leg; cf. jantong betis.
B. butang: a shrub; morinda umbellata.
B. chator: the pieces, at chess.
B. chuki: draughts.
B. hati: the heart,-either literally (Muj.,
6I); or as a term of endearment; Ht. Sg.
Samb.; Sh. Panj. Sg.
B. keras: a kind of nut; aleurites moluccanus.
B. keras laut: a large sea-shore tree; hernandia sonora.
B. khuldz: Adam's apple (in the throat);
(literally) the fruit of Paradise.
B. ntelaka: (I) a fruit (phyllanthus pectinatus);
(2) used as a simile for a bullet, C. and S.;
(3) a sweetmeat made of tepong pulut and
coco-nut sugar.
B. mtolong: a sweetmeat.
B. pala: nutmeg.
B. pantat: the buttocks.
B. peler: the testiculi.
B. pinggang: the kidneys.
B. secmanigat: special padi-stalks cut with
great ceremony so as to pacify and retain the
semangat padi; see semangat.
B. suldi: Adam's apple. Also b. khuldz
and halknzm.
B. timbangan: weights.
Several Malay games being played by
children using the hard fruit of various plants,
the word buwah has often the special sense of
'ball' in such games. Main buwah keras: to
play a game in which the buwah keras fruit is
used as a ball. Main buwah gorah, main
buwah sintok, etc.: similar games.
Anak b.: an expression denoting the persons
to whom a chief stands in loco parentis; his
vassals; the people whom he represents or
looks after; Ht. Abd., 60, 228.
Buwah-buwahan: fruits generally,
I Ht. Abd., 229. 2 Ht. Gul. Bak., 32, 53; Ht. Abd., 368.

3 Sej. Mal., 25. 4 Sej. Mal., I9, 52; Ht. Abd., 13, 14.
5 Sej., 75; Ht. Ind. Jaya; Ht. Sg. Samb. 6 Ht. Sg. Samb;
Ht. Abd., 4I3. 7 Ht. Abd., 2Io. 8 Ht. Abd., 88. 9 Ht.
Abd., 310. 0o Ht. Abd., 224; Sej. Mal., ro. "x Ht. Sg.
Samb. r2 Ht. Abd., 88. 13 Ht. Abd., 361. 14 Ht. Abd.,
43I. X5 Ht. Abd., 220, 284, 303. I6 Muj., 6I. I7 Ht. Abd.,
462. 18 Ht. Abd., 64; Ht. Sg. Samb. 19 Ht. Abd., 204.
20 Ht. Hamz., 5I.

Berbuwah: to bear fruit. Tiyada akan pisang
berbuwah duwa kali: a banana tree does not
bear fruit twice; if you sacrifice an extraordinary piece of good fortune, do not expect
a second stroke of luck to set things right;
Prov.
Berbuwahkan: to be bearing fruit. Berbuwahkan mas: bearing golden fruit; Sej.
Mal., 20.
Pebuwah: a globular vessel resting on a flat
base and used for holding the areca-nut in a
case of sireh-chewing requisites; the special
receptacle for the areca-nut. In some cases
chunam is kept in it.
~ buweh or bueh. Foam; surf; scum; froth;
spume. Hanyut buweh dari hulu sungai
Pelembang itu tcrlalu besar: a huge mass of
foam came drifting down from the upper
waters of the Palembang river; Sej. Mal., 35.
y bohong. Lying; a lie; fiction; untruth.
Sakaliyan itu bohong sa-mata-tmata: all that is
altogether false. Budak-budak terlalu bohong:
boys much given to lying. Surat bohong: a
forged letter; Ht. Abd., 271.
Membohongkan: to represent a man as a liar,
or a thing as a lie; Ht. Abd., 355.
Petbohong: a liar; Ht. Abd., 131, 3I4; Sh.
Ul., I6.
j). bohok. (Penang.) A muddy pool; a puddle.
Sj. buwai. Swaying; swinging; the motion of a
pendulum. Buwaiyan: a cradle; a kind of
hammock for a child; Sh. Lamp., 47; a
pendulum, Phys., 39. Buwaiyan pun di-gonchang, anak pun di-chubit: to rock the cradle
and pinch the child; to do an ill turn under
cover of a good action; Prov., J. S. A. S.,
XI., 43.
Berbuwai: to swing, to swing from, to swing
under; Sh. Pant. Shl., 14; Sh. Put. Ak., 30... boya. I. Loose; inadhesive-as tobacco,
K1.; cf. boyak, borak, and beborak.
II. (Kedah) (I) a crocodile; (2) an old tin
coin: = (Riau, Johor) buwaya, q. v.
III. Eur. A buoy.
boyot or buyut. I. Flabbiness, of flesh.
Perut boyot: flabby obesity; a stomach which
shakes or quivers as a man moves.

II. A remote ancestor; an ancestor in the
fifth or sixth generation. Also nmoyot..-. boyas. Extreme obesity; K1. Cf. boyot, I... - ---