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HALILINTAR

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HAMBA

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'JJLJ halilintar. A thunderbolt; a flash of lightning. Usually halintar.,J halintar. A thunderbolt; a flash of lightning;
Sej. Mal., I5. Bagai halintar membglah bumi
bunyi-nya: in sound as when the earth is
riven by a thunderbolt; Ht. Gul. Bak., 94.
Panah h.: a thunderbolt; Ht. Sg. Samb.
Batu h.: fossil stone implements, believed by
Malays to be portions of a thunderbolt.
'~ halintah. A horse-leech. Usually lintah, q. v.
j.Ac holanda. Dutch, Hollander. Peranaakkan h.:
of Dutch birth. Sa-buwah perahu h.: a Dutch
ship; Ht. Abd., 12.
b halwa. [Arab. -.] A generic name given
to fruits preserved in sugar, to jams, jellies
and confectionery in general; Ht. Abd., I77,
292, 303; Ht. Jay. Lengg. H. agar-agar:
sea-weed jelly. H. pala: nutmegs preserved
in syrup.
A,>, haloba. Greed, covetousness; to covet.
Dengan haloba Samd'-nya: through his covetousness and greed; Ht. Mar. Mah. Tamd' hilang
malu, haloba dapat kebinasaan: greed is shameless; covetousness brings ruin; Prov.
O.f haluwan. The bows of a boat; the forepart
of anything; the course of a ship; the line of
fire of guns. Turun-lah kami ka-sampan, dudoklah aku di-haluwan we all embarked on the
boat and I took my seat in the bows; Ht.
Abd., 455. Aleh haluwan ka-laut: to turn the
boat's head out to sea.
H. kepala biyola: fiddle bows.
H. tegak: straight bows.
Haluwan is also used of a subject's present
when brought to a prince.
~ helai. A classifier or numeral coefficient used
with words which are.the names of thin
tenuous objects such as sheets of paper, blades
of grass, garments, etc. Baju sa-helai: a
coat; Ht. Abd., 397. Sa-helai seluwar: a pair
of trousers; Ht. Abd., 314. Dalam sa-puloh
helai di-bacha-nya tiga atau empat: out of some
ten pages he read three or four; Ht. Abd., 87.
Bergantong rambut sa-helai: hanging from a
single hair; a precarious or dangerous position; Prov., Ht. Abd., 15. Tinggal sa-helai
sa-pinggang: to have one garment left for one
waist; to be left with nothing but the clothes
one is standing in; Prov., Ht. Abd., 288, 365.
\.4 haliya. Ginger, zingiber oficinalis. Haliya
tiyada tumboh: the ginger (when planted)
does not grow,-a rhyming equivalent for

setiya tiyada tegoh: her troth (when plighted)
is insecure; Ht. Jay. Lengg., Ht. Ind. Nata,
Ht. Sh. Kub. Ayer h. gingersyrup; Muj., 51.
H. hutan: a plant, globba sp. H. bara or
h. padi, and h. nasi or h. china: varieties of
ginger.

U haleja. A kind of cloth.
JL. halipan. A generic name for centipedes; Ht.
Abd., 88, 208, 284. In colloquial language
usually lipan.
H. bara: a centipede with a very dark back
and light coloured stomach and legs; it is
reputed very venomous; Ht. Abd., 208.
H. laut: a sea centipede: a nereis.
H. paean: the common house-centipede.
H. pesan-pesan: a very venomous centipede
(according to Marsden); in Riau pesan-pesan
is a venomous spider.
H. tanah: a common centipede which is dug
out of the earth.
H. tandok: an unidentified variety.
Jari h.: a pattern made by cutting trailers
diagonally from the midrib of a palm leaf.
~C^ halimun. Invisibility; the magic art of
rendering oneself invisible or of rendering
objects transparent. Jika aku he-ndak halimunan ta'-dapat-tiyada aku mnati juga di-bunoh
orang: if even I could render myself invisible
I should meet a violent death at the hands of
others; Sej. Mal., 56.
ham or hem. Onom. Hum; h'm.
A hum. I. Arab. They; the third personal
plural pronoun.
II. Arab. A possessive pronominal suffix,
of the third person plural in the genitive and
accusative cases.
III. To sew cloth or silk on the edge
of a mat.
A humm. Arab. Care, depression.
_ hamba. A slave; a self-depreciatory expression often used by an inferior in addressing a
superior, cf. sehaya and beta (less humble expressions) and patek and pachal (terms of
greater humility). H. tuwan, h. dato1k, h. enchek,
etc.: "my lord's servant, I, myself;-terms
used to superiors of different ranks. Orang
menjuwal hamba: a slave-dealer; Ht. Abd., I8.
H. Allah: God's slaves; God's poor; Ht.
Abd., 25, 209.
H. kompeni: convicts (in the early days of
Singapore); Ht. Abd., 326.
H. raja: slaves of the Sovereign.
H. sehaya: slaves of all grades; slaves generally.
Berhamba: (I) possessed of slaves; Ht. Abd.,
I6; (2) to serve; Sh. Abd. Mk., 83.
Berhambakan: to receive as a servant or

slave; to reduce to slavery; Ht. Sg. Samb., Ht.
Koris. Perhambakan and nzemperhambakan:
id.; Sh. Lail Mejn., I8; Sh. Kumb. Chumb., 4;
Ht. Ind. Nata; Ht. Mash. Memperhambakan
diri: to give oneself as a slave; (by extension
of meaning) to marry.

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