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YOP

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NYATA

yop or yup. An appellation or titular prefix
used with the names of male children of some
rank, e.g., Yup Mat: Master Mat. The word
is a corruption of kulup, q. v.
hi yak. Melachak yak or belachak yak: to be
abundant.
(%, yakln. Arab. Certain, sure; definite knowledge. Terlalu yakin didalain hati-nya: very
confident in his mind; Sh. Sg. Kanch., ii. Cf.
also Ht. Abd., 6; Ht. Gul Bak., 129, I44;
Sh. Sing. Terb., 63..~ yogiya. Sa-yogiya-nya: as is fitting; properly;
appropriately. Pronounced saigianya. e,. yamtuwan. Ruler, prince; sovereign, used
of a reigning prince; = yang di-p~rtuwan.
Yamtuwan muda: a title given in some
countries to the heir-apparent. Yamtuwan
Daik: the Sultan of Daik (Lingga); Ht. Abd.,
I90, 327., yaman. Arab. Yemen; Arabia Felix; Ht.
Abd., 7.
X yamani. Arab. Appertaining to Yemen;
the adjective of yaman; Ht. Gul Bak., 40.
yamyam. A title given to a Court cook.
yu. A shark, a dog-fish; a generic name for
all fish of the shark or dog-fish type. Ikan
yu: id.; Sh. Ik. Trub., 5; Ht. Sh. Jong
pgchah yu sarat, or jong pechah yu yang
kennyang: when the junk is wrecked, the
sharks fill their stomachs; it is an ill wind
that blows nobody any good; Prov., J. S. A.
S., I., 98. Also hiyu and iyu.
Y. bengkong: the hammer-headed shark.
Y. belangkas: a large man-eating shark.
Y. bodoh: a dull-witted kind of basking-shark
which is very harmless and very easily caught.
Y. gaji-gaji or y. gergaji: the saw-fish, or L
saw-nosed shark.

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Y. harimau: the tiger-shark; a shark with
markings on its body.
Y. kiya-kiya: a dog-fish with a head like a
ray and a tail like a shark. Saperti yu kiyakiya: like this fish, i.e., one thing at one end
and another at the other; double-faced,
treacherous.
Y. palang: a hammer-headed shark; a variety
of the y. bengkong.
Y. sambaran: a man-eating shark.
Y. to'kek: a savage inedible dog-fish.
Y. punai, y. kenzmnnyan, y. ken angi and
y. laras: other undescribed varieties.
0\;'. yojana or yujana. [Skr. yojana: as far as a
bullock can travel?] A measure of length of
a somewhat indefinite character, usually with
the idea "as far as the eye can see " (clearly).
Sa-yujana mata mermandang: id.; Ht. Sh. Kub.
Sa-yujana mata mrne-ntang: id.; Ht. Sg. Samb.
Sa-yujana is usually pronounced saujana, and
is treated as one word, e.g., padang saujana: a
wide plain.
yuda. (Kawi.) War. Beranta y.: the Bhay rata-war; the Maha-bharata as known to the
Malays. Misa kesomay.: a name; Ht. Sh.
_L.. yAsuf. Arab. Joseph. Nabiy.: the Joseph
of the Old Testament.
yogiya. See \. -
yaum. Arab. Day (of twenty-four hours).
Yaumu'l-kiydmat: the Day of Judgment; Ht.
Mar. Mah.;y- yftnmn. Arab. Ionia, Greece.
yftnus. Arab. Jonah; a name often met
OJ5~ with among Malays. Nabt Yfinus: the scriptural Jonah.
J.~ yahAda. Arab. Judah; Judaea; Ht. Abd.,
182.

5-A*. yahMdl. Arab.
Orang y.: a Jew.

Jewish; Sh. Sing. Terb., 29.

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6 The letter nya; the thirty-third and last letter
of the Malay alphabet; the equivalent for the
number 7,000 in the abjad, q. v.;) nya. A pronominal suffix of the third person
possessive. Kata-nya: his saying (was); he
said. Di-dhngar-nya: in his hearing; he heard.,2. nyata. [Skr. niyata.] Clear, obvious, plain,
visible, evident, manifest, conspicuous. Puteri
itu tiyada dapat di-pandang nyata daripada
paras-nya: the princess could not be seen
clearly owing to (the dazzling nature of) her
beauty; Cr. Gr., i8. Nyata-lah Saiyid Yasin
itu ada brkhutang lagi: it was shown in
evidence that Saiyid Yasin still owed money;
Ht. Abd., 243. Khabar dengan bUtul lagi
nyata: clear and reliable news; Ht. Abd., 469.
Nyatakan and mnnyatakan: to make clear, to
show.

nya. The name of the letter,.

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