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i\ iyau. (Onom.) Mengiyau: to mew, of a cat.
iyu. A dog-fish, a shark; also hiyu and
yu, q. v.
\A\ aiw&n. Pers. A palace; a court of justice..! ayfb. Arab. The patriarch Job.;J-! ayuta. Million; v. juta.
4,\ ayah. Father; sire; uncle-a more respectful expression than bapa, and one invariably
used when speaking of the father of a prince.
A. bonda: father and mother; parents.
Ayahanda: an even more respectful equivalent of bapa.
ayoh. An interjection expressive of distress
or sorrow.
Ayoh Allah! apa-kan jadi;
Malam betjaga siyang berkubu:
woe is me, oh God! how can it end?-this
watching all night and manning forts all day;
Sh. Raj. Haj., 182.
^ ba. The letter ba; the symbol for the number
2 in the A bjad, q. v.
h bi. An Arabic prefix signifying "in,"' "with."
Bi'smi'llahi: in the name of God.
Bi'hi: with him.
\ b,. The name of the letter..\. bib. Arab. Gate, entrance; the opening up
of entirely new subject matter in a book;
hence: a main subdivision of a work; Ht.
Abd., 473; Sh. Tab. Mimp., I; a chapter of
a Code of Law as distinct from a section
(fasal); Laws of Palembang, p. I3.
+\ baba. A Straits-born European, Eurasian or
Chinese; v. babah.
c:. babat. A match, one of a pair or set. Sababat: exactly similar to; forming a match
or set.
Also babak and babap.

Hhndak bersahdabat
Chari sama babat:
when you make a friend, seek one of your
own class; Prov.

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ayahanda. Father, sire; a very respectful
variant of ayah, q. v.
anyut. Drifting; better hanyut, q. v.
anyir. Fishy, of odour; better hanyir, q. v.
anyang. Sweeping up rubbish into heaps.
Kayu anyang: the name of a medicinal drug.
anyek. Onyak-antyek: shaking continually;
dawdling over work; uncertain though frequent in movement; see onyak.
anyam. Twisting; plaiting; basket or wickerwork; working in ntligkuwang and wicker
generally.
Menganyam: to work in wicker; to make
matting or basket-work; Ht. Jay. Lengg.
Teranyam: plaited; worked-of wicker-work;
Ht. Gul. Bak., I38.
6nyah. To disappear; to vanish; see ennyah
and nyah.
babit. The introduction of third parties into
a dispute in which they are not directly concerned; dragging in the names of innocent
persons into a case, or the involving of a
family in the fault of one of its members.
babad. I. Jav. A chronicle; a history; a
historical record.
II. Jav. To fell.
babar. Expansion; the opening out or unfurling of any article with a large surface;
the spreading out of a sail. Keluwang di-babar:
a bat with its wings stretched to their full
expansion; Sh. Abd. Mk., 29. Ikan di-kolam
sudah-lah babar: the fish in the pond have
scattered in all directions, i.e., from being a
compact shoal they have spread over a large
surface in their flight; Sh. Ik. Trub., 8. Karang
terbabar: widespread reefs; Pel. Abd., I o.
Babar is also used of a play being long
dragged out, "dragging its weary length

along." Cf. babor.
babor. Expansion in the centre, broad bodied;
broad bladed, of a weapon. Si-babor: the
name given to a keris the blade of which is
narrow near the handle and then broadens
out. Tajak babor: a broad bladed grasscutting knife. Cf. babar.

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