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StLIGUT

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StMANGAT

sligut. I. Moving amongst each other in
different directions, of people in a crowd;
confused motion of the whole caused by
independent action on the part of the items.
II. (Kedah.) A game played by children.
~A seligi. A light dart or javelin of wood; Ht.
Abd., 312; Ht. Hg. Tuw., 5; Ht. Mar. Mah.;
Sh. K. G. T., 23. This dart is used as a
proverbial simile for long sharp slender
bodies. Datang-lah api itu saperti stligi; the
fire came leaping out in darts; Sh. Sing.
Terb., 29.
Chandu chelaka jangan di-tuli,
Tulang rusok saperti sWligi:

IV. Buwat som: (Penang) to pull a long
face; to look sulky.
V. A ship, of a type no longer known; Sej.
Mal., II7.

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heaven.

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your rib-bones will stand out like wooden
darts.
S. tajam bertimbal: a dart pointed at both
ends. S. tajam bertimbal, tidak hujong pangkal
mengena: a dart pointed at both ends, if one
end does not get you the other end will; a
double-edged policy or argument; Prov.
This kind of dart is especially used with the
alir or floating line for crocodiles; the reptile,
taking the bait, gets pierced with the seligi.
Nyeligi: (Jav.) to use the seligi as a dart;
Sh. Panj. Sg.
\L sulaimin. Arab. A proper name, Solomon;
often colloquially contracted to leman. Tapak S.: the pentacle; the 5-pointed star-fish;
the seal of Solomon; the name of a plant.
Nabi S.: the great Solomon.
-... sslimut. Sheeting; enfolding or enwinding;
a shroud, a sheet, a covering for the body.
Kain s.: a sheet, Ht. Abd., 486.
S. p~sujutan. a praying mat, from sujud.
Better sajadah.
Selimuti: to wrap up in a sheet, to tuck
away in a bed; Sh. Bid., 77. Selimutkan:
to use as a sheet; Sh. Sri Ben., 15. Brselimutkan: id. Bertikarkan bumi, bersmlimutkan langit, bersulohkan bulan: with the earth
for a sleeping mat, the sky for a sheet, and
the moon to light one to bed; the lot of the
pauper; Prov., Ht. Sh.
S;. s61inap. The process of tearing off the skin
of the bmntban in making atap-thatch; tearing
off the skin of a fowl, feathers and all, to save
oneself the trouble of plucking it.
sL s/leweng. A gossip, a busybody, a loiterer
for the purpose of talking.
o som. I. Akar som: a Chinese medicine used
as a tonic to fatten and strengthen people.
II. A sweetmeat made of sugar, milk, flour
and banana.
III. Tulang som: a pubic bone. Jijak sot:
the name given to the completion of the
actual delivery of a child, in childbirth., s&ma. Sema-sema: a cold in the head.
Better sesena, from Skr. salema.
s6mata. [Skr. samatd.] Likeness; just
like; almost exactly. Often written sa-mata;
v. mata.
sBmaja. But, only; a variant of sehaja, q. v.
smarang. Samarang, a well-known port
in Java; Ht. Abd., 361.
smaram. A large timber tree; payena leerii.
sbmangat. The spirit of physical life;
vitality, in contradistinction to the immortal
essence or soul (nyawa); the breath of life;
health. Stmangat also survives as the old
primitive form of the belief in the soul, which
among the ancient Malays was believed to be
a bird residing in the stomach. This theory
survives in many old-world ceremonies; but
semangat, in this sense, should not be confused
with the modern Muhammadan idea of the
soul (whidh lives immortally in heaven) or
with the old Malayo Hindu idea of the soul
(which passed into other bodies)'.
A mbil s.: to capture another person's (e.g.
a girl's) semangat, and so to render that
person mentally captive to your will.
Arwdrh s.: a synonym for scmangat, arwdht or
ruh being the Arabic for spirit of life. Rih s.
id.; Ht. Raj. Don., 55.
Bertukar jiwa dengan semangat: to exchange
the soul for the spirit of life; a losing deal;
Prov., Ht. Sh. Kub.
Buwah s.: special padi-stalks used as a sort of
offering at the semangat padi festivals in Kedah.
Hilang s.: the loss of vitality; the loss of
consciousness whether temporarily (Ht. Gul.
Bak., 49) or permanently in death; e.g.:
Jikalau suka mtelebehi sa'at.
A khir-nya datang hilang semangat:
For the bird-like character of the semangat see van der
Toorn's article: Het Animisme bij den Minangkabauer
der Pandangsche Bovenlanden," Bijd. T. L. V., I8go, p.
53. See also Maxwell's articles in the Journal of the
Straits Asiatic Society. The following charm given me
by a Pawang in Province Wellesley distinctly speaks of
the semangat as a bird:
' Hai anak aku, Dang SEri Tani? ' Alam, bararak berusong
mari ka-aku, bUrdukong berkilek mari ka-aku, di-matahari naik
di-matahari jatoh mari ka-aku, di-hulu di-hilir mari ka-aku,
di-laut di-darat mari ka-aku. Mari, simangat ayah, marl ha
ayah. Mari, burong ayah, mari ka-ayah. Jangan jangan mu
/Kchil hati. Jangan jangan mu kechil rasa." This prayer is
to call back the snmangat when the speaker is dazed. The
bird is the pingai.

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