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sauk. I. The process of lassoing; the actual
throwing being called tebar and the lasso jarat.
II. A pot-lid. S. belanga: id. Ikan s.
belanga: a descriptive name for a fish (unindentified).
III. Scooping up with the hands.
IV. (Onom.) Sighing, the sound of a man
sighing. Dengan sauk tangis: with sighs and
tears; Ht. Best. Sayup-sayup bunyi sauk
orang: low in the distance were heard the
sighs of men; Ht. Gul. Bak., 91. The word
also occurs; Ht. Gul. Bak., i6, 47, 82, 98,
and in two other passages of the Ht. Best.

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SAYAT
sawah. Land naturally or artificially cultivated and used for padi-planting; wet padi-land;
padi-fields. Yang ada berwang di-beli-nya
sawah: those who had money bought padiland; Ht. Abd., 367.
S. benchah: land naturally swampy.
S. bendang: a whole padi-field; a padi-swamp
in its full extent.
Membuwat s.: to open up padi-land.

sawan. Convulsions, epilepsy; fits;-ascribed to the attacks of an evil spirit; Ht.
Abd., 154. Saperti budak terjun sawan: like
a child in convulsions; Sh. Bur. Nuri, 7.
Saperti budak terkena sawan: id., Sh. Ik.
Trub., 9.
S. babi, or s. gila babi: epilepsy.
S. bangkai: apoplexy.
Batok s.: whooping cough, in children.
Ibu s.: a peculiar boil or eruption of boils
on a child's head.
MeAnolakkant s.: to keep off fits, to ward off
convulsions;-used of a charm or medicine.

\~L* sawai. I. Burong sawai: a racquet-tailed
bird (edolius?), also known as burong antinganting.
II. Bersawai: to chant magical hymns, to
sing songs in the language of spirits,-used of
magicians and persons possessed.
5.y sawi. I. A passenger who works his passage.
Also senawi.
II. Mustard, brassica nigra. Also sawisawi, and sesawi. Biji s.: mustard-seed.
S. pasir: artanema sesamoides.
\cP sahit. A variant of sayat, q.v.
c.^ sahut. Response, reply, answer., Maka
sahut-ku daripada hidop yang demikiyan terlebeh
baik-lah mati: I replied: better death than
such a life as this; Ht. Abd., 41. Cf. also Ht.
Abd., 79, 131, i6i; Sej. Mal., 7,9; Cr. Gr., 33.
Sahut-sahutan: continuously replying one
to another,-as guns in salutes, or as bands
playing one after the other; Cr. Gr., 44. Ber.
sahutan: id.; Sh. Abd. Mk., 9. Bersahutsahutan: id.; Sh. Lamp., 3; Sh. Abd. Mk.,
IO; Ht. Gul Bak., 87.
Sahuti: to make reply to, to answer; Sej.
Mal., nxo; Ht. Ind. Jaya; Sh. Bid., ii.
Menyahut: id. (intransitive); Sh. Sri Ben., 28;
Ht. Abd., Io; Sej. Mal., 29, 80. Msnyahuti:
id. (transitive); Ht. Sg. Samb.; Ht. Ind.
Jaya; Ht. Mash., 45.
Jbu sahan. [Arab. sahan.] An iron plate.

<) sauh. I. A fruit tree; mimusops kauki.
S. hutan: a large tree with deep green leaves,
white flowers, and yellow plum-like fruits;
parinarium griffithianum.
S. mznila: the chiku or sapodilla; achras
sapota.
II. An anchor. Me'mbongkar s.: to haul
up the anchor; Ht. Abd., 133; cf. Sej. Mal.,
76; Cr. Gr., 60. Chamnpak s.: casting anchor;
Pel. Abd., IIo.
S. chemat: an anchor thrown ashore for
hauling on.
S. jangkar a heavy grapnel.
S. larat: an anchor that is dragging.
Laksana bahtera sauih-nya larat,
Entah ka-timor, entah ka-barat:
like a ship that is dragging its anchor, and
may be driven whether East or West; —used
of a man who is the victim of circumstances
against which he cannot make way; Prov.
S. terbang: a light grapnel at the end of a
rope,-used for scaling a wall or any similar
purpose; Ht. Hamz., 67.
S. tunggal: a single cable. Bersauh tunggal:
reduced to a single cable; in extremis; Sh.
Bur. Nuri, 40.
Batang s.: the shaft of an anchor.
Batu s.: the stone in a Malay anchor.
Kuku s.: the blade or barb in a Malay
anchor.
Ukoran s.: a method of measuring the proportions of an anchor (upon which its efficacy
depends).

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sahi. Negligent; KI., v. d. W.
sai. A fish; a kind of ray (unidentified).

c5\, saya. A colloquial abbreviation for sehaya,
q. v..*\ sayat. Slicing away the surface of anything;
taking off the skin; scratching off or rubbing
off the outer surface; taking off a projecting
extremity such as an ear or finger. Htndakkah pula telinga-mu kit sayat: do you want me
also to slice off your ears; Ht. Kal. Dam., 59.
Bukan-nya mudah daging di-sayat, berchlrai-lah
badan dbngan-nya nyawa: it is not an easy
thing to sever flesh and blood (near relations);
it is as though the soul were parting from the
body; Ht. Koris. Sahit kulit-nya: to cut
off the skin of anything; Ht. Best.

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