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-.. -.... - CIII~- l,, b.bayan. I. A parrakeet, a small parrot-like
bird (psittacus osbeckii, Cr.) which, from its
power to speak, plays a great part in Malay
romances. Di-permain-nya saperti duwa ekor
bayan tahu berkata-kata: she made them play
together as if they were two parrots that could
speak; Ht. Gul. Bak., 43. See also the
story of Darmadewa and Darmadewi in the
Ht. Sg. Samba (Malay Fourth Reader, p. 20).
Hikayat bayan budiman: the story of the wise
Bayan; the name of a collection of tales
adapted from the Persian tuti-nameh or
Hindustani tota-kahani.
Ikan bayan-bayan: a fish (unidentified).
II. [Arab. O3.] Clear, plain, obvious; v.
III. Jav. A waiting-maid in a palace, a
maid of honour, = dayang-dayang; an expression sometimes used for the first person
singular, like hamba and sehaya. Nenek kebayan: a sort of old granny or fairy godmother
who plays a great part in Malay tales.
Ken bayan and bayan songket: names given
to Court damsels; Ht. Sh.; Ht. Mas. Ed.;
Sh. Panj. Sg.
^A, bayu. I. [Skr. wayu.] The wind; the god
of the winds. Betara bayu: the great god
Vayu, or the wind; the Sanskrit Aeolus; Ht.
Sg. Samb. Bayu yang limah lembut dan sepuih:
a gentle softly-breathing wind; a zephyr;
Bint. Tim., 4 April, 1895.
Angin inderabayu: a tempest.
Balai b.: a breezy kiosk; Ht. Koris.
Di-puput bayu: swayed by the breeze; Sh.
Ik. Trub., 20; Sh. Bur. Pungg., 12; Cr. Gr.,
62.
Bayu is also used as an adjective merely
expressing divinity or divine origin after the
names of fabulous monsters, e.g. ggroda b.
( Ht. Sh. Kub.), petala b. (Ht. Koris), etc.
II. A humble expression of submission or
service; a slave; an equivalent of hamba. Henda4k minta perhamba ka-bawah duli tuwanku akan
jadi bayu kapada paduka anakanda tuwan puteri:
I wish to submit myself to Your Majesty that
I may become the humble servant of Her
Highness, the Princess your daughter; —a
proposal of marriage; Ht. Koris. Orang
istana menjadi bayu, orang balai menjadi penghadapan orang: courtiers becoming slaves,
magnates of the audience halls becoming the
retainers of others; Ht. Sh. Kub. Dengarkan juga sembah-nya bayu: listen, nevertheless,

to the words of your slave (to my words), Ht.
Ind. Meng. See also Sh. Pant. Shl., x.
III. Half stale; between staleness and
freshness.

4.a bayoh. Plurality of wives; the possession of
more than one wife (not necessarily illegal);
also sexual intercourse, Majm. al-Ahk., 274.
\, banyar. I. Evil odour; unpleasant in smell;
cf. bachin and bangar, which express worse
odour.
II. A squall; C. and S.
J banyak. Quantity; abundance; much, many.
Banyak orang: a number of persons. Orang b.:
many persons; the majority of men.
Sadikit b.: more or less; something. Dapatlah aku sadikit banyak pelajaran itu: I learnt
something of what he taught; Ht. Abd., 35.
Maha-banyak: very many; Ht. Hamz., 24.
Sa-banyak: as many, so many, so much. A dakah sa-banyak bziu ayam jantan itu: are they as
many as the feathers on that cock? Ht.
Abd., 272.
Kebanyakan: the majority; most. K. manusiya: most men. Timah k.: common tin.
Mbnbanyakkan: to increase the number of;
to augment; Ht. Ind. Nata; Ht. Abd., 97, 316.
Banyak-banyaki: to overcome by force of
numbers; to crush by numerical advantage;
Ht. Sg. Samb. Membanyak-banyaki: id.
a. banyu. Fermented coconut water, used in
the process of dyeing silk.

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b(baran. A shell (unidentified); see baran.
bdbarau. A fish, priacanthus blochii; also
barau-barau and sebarau.

c5jL bebari. The fruit fly; better bari-bari; see
bari.
d$~ bbaka. See baka.
b6bat. Wrapping round; enfolding in cloth;
girdling.
Bebatkan: to gird, to enfold or enwind. Bebatkan pinggang choba-lah engkau: try to gird
up your loins; Sh. Lail Mejn., 6.
Perbebat: enfolded, engirdled, girt round.
Di-dalam rahmat Tuhan perbebat: wrapped up
in the mercy of God; Sh. Lail Mejn., 56.
Bebat is also used of a road being closed to
traffic by a trench or barricade; Pel. Abd., 60.
by b6b6ram. (Kedah.) A kind of fish-trap,
'" used for catching small freshwater fish in
swamped padi-fields and little streams.
r bibang. A stoppage of the anus or uterus; inability to get through anything, as when a man
tries to get his arm through too tight a sleeve.
Anak kebebangan: (by metaphor) a child
cursed from his birth; a child whose very
birth was attended with trouble.

IV. (Johor.) A tree (unidentified).

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