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KURONG [ 547 KUSI

KURONG

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KUSI

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kurong. Enclosing, shutting off; a private
apartment or enclosure; a room; a cabin; to
confine in a room; to shut up at home.
Kena k.: to be locked up, to be imprisoned
for debt; Ht. Abd., 429.
Di-dalam kurong di-halau puteri,
Dudok di-haluwan sa-orang din:
he sent off the princess to her cabin and
remained alone on the bows (of the ship); Sh.
Put. Ak., 2I.

kuwas. See kuwis.
kuwis. Striking aside with the finger-nail;
shoving aside with the foot; poking up and
knocking out with a sharp object. Saperti
ayam, kuwis pagi makan pagi, kuwis petang
makan pitang: like a hen which eats in the
morning what it scratches up in the morning,
and eats in the evening what it scratches up
in the evening; Prov., J. S. A. S., II., 146.
Kuwas-kuwis: id. (frequentative).
Kuwiskan: to pick out, to scratch out; to
poke out (with a toothpick, Ht. Ind. Meng.).
kusut. Tangled, matted (especially of hair);
confused, perplexed. Rambut kusut: tangled
hair; Ht. Abd., 295; Ht. Ind. Meng. Rambut
kusut-kusut: id.; Ht. Mas. Ed. Hati kusut:
perplexity; Sh. B. A. M., 3; Sh. Ik. Trub., 7;
Sh. Ch. Ber., 8.

K. bajau: a sort of quarter-deck or enclosed
space over a cabin.
K. laut, k. tengah, k. kelingking: the names of
the enclosures in a large sea fish-trap (kelong).
Baju k.: the ordinary loose coat (baju) worn
by Malays.
Kurongan: a cage or enclosure; Ht. Abd.,
252; Sej. Mal., 44.
Berkurong: to be confined to one's room or
to a cage; Sh. Bur. Pungg., I8. Berkurongan:
id.; Ht. Abd., 83.
Terkurong: shut up, confined.
Sa-ekor burong,
MIata lepas badan terkiurong:
a bird whose eye may rove but whose body is
caged; a proverb descriptive of the position of
many wives; J. S. A. S., XXIV., IIo; Sh.
A. R. S. J., 30.
np( kurap. I. A generic name for a number of
parasitic diseases of the skin such as ringworm;
Muj., 70; Hay. Haiw.; Ht Raj. Don., 52.
Malay doctors recognize many varieties, e.g.,
k. ayam; k. bukit, k. gajah, k. kain, k. losong or
k. kelongsong, k. pekan, and k. susu.
II. A shell, capsa deflorata; Sh. A. R. S. J., 4.
Also kipah kurap..</ korek. Boring or digging a hole; Ht. Abd.,
64; Ht. Kal. Dam., 370.
K. ulat: "to dig up worms;" a slang expression signifying searching for an excuse to
quarrel.
Mengorek: to dig; Ht. Gul. Bak., 39.,j koral. [Eng. or Dutch.] Coral.

K. masai: an intensitive of kusut.
(
J)t kusar. Anger, annoyance. Better gusar.
/ kusus. Better (Arab.) khusus, q. v.
koseng. Chin.? To be "cleaned out" at
gambling; to lose all one's money. Pronounced kor-seng.
^ X/ kosong. Empty, idle, hollow. Karong k.:
an empty bag.
Empanma buwah kedepong,
Luwar merah dalam-nya kosong:
like the kedepong fruit, red outside and hollow
inside; specious but worthless; Prov.
-^/ kosak. Kosak-kasek: (Onom.) the sound of a
restless man fidgetting about on his chair or
couch. Also kosak-kosek.
- <kosek. I. See kosak.
II. (Onom.) The sound of washing rice or
of scraping the scales off fish. Pronounced
korse '.
J\ kusal. To roll up anything by friction between
the hands.
J kosil. To "keep hammering" at any task; to
work a bit at a time but at many times; to
keep reverting to a point or worrying a person.
J kusam. Lustreless; dull, in contradistinction
f/ to shiny.
J kusu. I. A small group of two or three
persons; a knot of men gathered together to
talk. Berkusu-kusu: in clusters, of men whispering together; Ht. Abd., 404.
II. Kusu-kusu: the vetiver or cuscus grass,
andropogon muricatus.
S9 kusi. Rumput kusi: a grass (poa cynosuraides?).

I. kurau. A well-known fish, a variety of the
senangin; Sh. Ik. Trub., 6; Kam. Kech., 6.
o,) korah. [Arab. 3J] A ball.
5/ kurai. Straight broad veining or marks in
wood or on a keris-blade.
(S)f kori or kuri. A water-vessel; Ht. Mar. Mah.
Also gori.
< kosa or kusa. [Skr. angkusa.] The ankus
or goad used by a mahout; Ht. Sh. Kosat:
to prod with the ankus; Ht. Isk. Dz.
Also (Kedah) besi kuwasa. Pronounced (Riau,
Johor) korsa.

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