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HUN~NTANGC

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HANA~JCHOR, huntang. See hanting and untang.
I nt- hantap. Heavy for its size; closely compressed; specific gravity.;-^- hintip. Jav.
Also intip.

Peering, spying out; = hintai.

j'z hhntak. A variant of entak, q. v.;;A hentek. Winnowing with side-long jerks;
v. entek.
j; htntam. Striking, stamping the foot on
anything, knocking down; Pel. Abd., 72..f~ hantu. An evil spirit, a ghost or goblin; also
(Straits Settlements) a gambling informer.
Ada banyak hantu shaititn di-kota itu: there are
many ghosts and evil spirits in the fort; Ht.
Abd., 62. Memeliharakan h.: to keep a
familiar spirit; Ht. Abd., 390. Membela h.:
id. Berhantu: to exorcise evil spirits or
otherwise have dealings with them; the
practice of the black art; Ht. Abd., 204.
H. bangkit: a "sheeted" ghost; the ghost
of a man wearing his grave-clothes.
H. beliyan: the tiger-spirit; v. beliyan.
H. butgkus: the h. bangkit, so called from the
appearance of the grave-clothes.
H. dagok: clouds on the horizon believed to
be the ghosts of murdered men.
H. domlan: (Kedah) a dog-faced spirit, a
survival of the Hanuman legend.
H. gerugul: a forest demon that strikes
people dumb.
H. golek: the h. bangkit so called because the
ghost fettered by its grave-clothes can only
move along by rolling over the ground.
H. jamuwan: a familiar spirit.
H. keramat: the spirit haunting a keramat,
q. v.
H. koclhong: the h. bangkit so called from
the way the grave-clothes are tied up.
H. orang mati di-bunoh: the ghost of a
murdered man;-a very revengeful ghost.
H.pemburu: the Spectre Huntsman of Malay
legend.
H. penyakit: a spirit of disease.
H. raya: an incestuous evil spirit of great
power and treachery.
H. rimba: a ghost haunting the jungle; an
evil spirit of the woods very dangerous to
lonely travellers; Ht. Best.
H. tanah: the gnomes or goblins of the soil
who have to be propitiated by miners, landcultivators, etc.
Achan h.: v. achan.
Burong h.: an owl.
Di-rasok h.: to be attacked by an evil spirit.
Jari h.: the middle finger.
Kena h.: to be the victim of a spirit.

IKna imbasan h.: to be afflicted by a passing
spirit of disease.
Siput h. laut: a shell (unidentified).
Hantu when applied to plant names has the
meaning " wild" as against "cultivated " (by
human agency), the theory being that ghosts
plant these wild plants., hnti. Stopping; putting an end to; termi-. nating; coming to an end. Hentikan: to stop
(a man); to keep a man waiting; Sej. Mal.,
94; to cause him to desist from doing a thing,
Muj., 62. Berhenti: to come to a stop. Dengan
tiyada berhenti: without stopping; Ht. Abd.,
29. Bnrhentikan: to terminate; to put a stop
to. Perhentiyan: stoppage, ending, close.
Tempat perrhntiyan: a place of stoppage; Ht.
Abd., 37. Genderang perhentiyan: a drum
beating to bring an army to a halt; Ht.
Isk. Dz.
hintai. Gazing at, spying, watching, keeping
n an eye on. Laksana kuching menghintai
perburuwan: like the cat watching its prey;
Ht. Raj. Sul., 26.
hanti. Hentak-hanti: convulsive tapping or
movement; v. entak.
O., hntimun. A generic name for cucumbers
melons, gourds, etc. Also tinun, mentimun
entimun, etc.

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hinjit. A variant of inchit, q. v.
hunjor. Stretching out, projection; Ht. Sh.
Mard., Ht. Mar. Mah. Also unjor, q. v.
hunjap. A variant of unjap, q. v.
h6njal. A variant of enjal, q. v.
hunjam or h6njam. Thrusting anything
violently into the earth; Ht. Ind. Nata; Ht.
Best. Also unjam, q. v.

I hinchit. Departure; exit; quitting; clearing
out; = inchit, q. v... hinchut or (Kedah) henchot. Variants of
v nchut, q. v.
hanchor. Dissolution; melting; being crushed
to powder; being reduced to liquid form.
Menikam dan menchenchang mayat sa-hingga
hanchor-lah tiyada berketahuwan rupa. stabbing
and slashing the corpse till it was cut to pieces
and quite unrecognizable; Ht. Abd., 248.
Ringgit pun hanchor-lah saperti timah: the
dollars melted like tin; Ht. Abd., 364. Senjata
itu-pun hanchor-lah saperti lili: the weapons
were crushed up as though made of wax; Ht.
Sg. Samb. H. hati: feeling crushed; feeling
"very much cut up "; oppression of spirits.
Terlalu hanchor rasa-nya hati Sang Samba
sapirti di-hiris dengan sembilu: Sang Samba
felt utterly heart-broken, he felt as though his
heart had been sliced to pieces with a sharp
bamboo-knife; Ht. Sg. Samb.

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