An abridged Malay-English dictionary (romanised) by R.J. Wilkinson ...

BONGKAS

bonkar, to heave up; b. sauh,
to weigh anchor; b. bukit, to
dig up a hillock; bongkar-bangkir, turning everything topsy
turvy.
bongkas, rising up (as the roots
of a tree when the tree is blown
down, or as the buried portion
of a stake or pile when the pile
is knocked down); heaved up;
thrust up.
bongkeng, lying forward, face
downwards and knees drawn
up (of a dead body).
bongkok, hump-backed; b. baharu betul, " the hump - back
who has just become straight"
(a beggar on horse-back). prov.;
b. udang slightly stooping, b.
sabut much bowed; membongkok, to stoop, to humble oneself.
bongkol, a hump; = bonggol.
bongkong, I. bongkong kayu, a
parasitic growth on the trunk of
a tree; II. a Malay cake made
in a wrapper of banana leaf.
bonglai, a ginger used in medicine (zingiber cassumunaar).
bongok, heavily built, clumsy.
bongsu, younger-born.
bonjol, projecting outward-cf.
bujal, benjul, etc.
bonyor, soft and bad, of fruit,
fish, meat.
bopeng, pockmarked; also mopeng.
bor (Dutch), an auger.
borak, I. insipid (of tobacco);
also boyak. II. Ar. a mysterious flying animal; the animal
upon which Muhammad made
his journey to heaven.
borang, Jav. a caltrop; = ranjau.
~ordu, Port. the gunwale (sometimes the hatches).
boreh, a yellow cosmetic for the
body.

BUAH
borek, spotted (with fairly large
spots); ayam b., a spotted fowl.
boren, a kind of coral.
boria, Hind. a topical song, sung
in Penang in the Muharram
month.
borong, wholesale; by the gross;
memborong or menbeli borong,
to buy up wholesale so as to
command the market.
boros, prodigal, extravagant.
bos, the noise made by a crocodile.
bosa, tali bosa, a rope attached
to a ship's cable to stop it when
sufficiently run out.
bosan, satiety, nausea.
boseta, Port. a basket.
bosor, gluttonous.
bostan, see bustan.
bota, Skr. a goblin, an evil spirit.
botak, bald of the crown.
botan, the rose peony.
boya, I. Port. a buoy; also bairup. II. Pen. Ked. _= buaya.
boyak, weak; insipid (of tobacco); also borak. II. Pk., unwieldy of men, boats.
Boyan, the isle of Bawean between Java and Borneo; orang
B., a " Boyanese."
buah, fruit; a spherical or nearly
spherical object; a descriptive
prefix or numeral co ~ efficient
for objects of a more or less
spherical or cubical appearance
such as houses, hills, baskets,
stones, countries, towns, etc.;
b. chatur, chessmen; b. hati,
the heart (especially as a term
of endearment); b. keras, the
candle-nut (aleurites moluccanus); b. Melaka, a sweetmeat
of soft dough; b. p a I a, nutmeg; b. peler, the testicles; b.
pinggang, the kidneys; b. timbangan, weights; anak b., (1)
dependents, people under a

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