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

BUNTANG
buntang, I. starting out of the
head (as the eyes of the man
who is being strangled). II. a
weaver's rod.
buntar, dome -shaped; roughly
hemispherical; b. bagang - ba -
yang, round, of shadows at
noon.
buntat, a gall-stone; a petrified
substance found in animal or
vegetable substances; a bezoar.
buntil, a clothes-bag.
bunting, pregnant; b. sarat, advanced pregnancy.
buntu, Jav. filled of a well, cutting or belly.
buntul, the ring on a keris sheath.
buntur, sated with food, glutted.
buntut, the posterior; the stern;
the fundament; the base of a
sheath.
bunut, hujan bunut, very beavy
rain.
bunyi, sound, noise; meaning,
accent, intonation; demikian
bunyi - nya, of the following
tenor; bunyi - bunyian, strains
of music; brbunyi, to sound;
membunyikan to enunciate, to
pronounce.
bupatt, Skr. a Javanese title;
lord of the earth.
bura, spitting out; ejecting; pillorying; ular naga b., a snake
(probably naia sputatrix, the
black cobra).
burai, gushing out (as entrails).
burhan, Ar. demonstration, proof.
buri, Jav. back, behind; di-buri,
in rear.
burit, posterior, stern; buritah,
the stern of a ship; memburit,
to commit an unnatural offence.
burj, Ar. castle; sign of the
zodiac.
burok, worn, decayed (of vegetable and manufactured articles,

BUTANG
but not of animal matter - cf.
busok); burokkan, to wear out.
burong, a bird; b. dewata, the
bird of paradise; tembak b.,
bird-shooting.
buru, hunting, the chase; memburn, to hunt; pemburu, hunter; hantu pimburu, the wild
huntsman, an evil spirit; perburuan, sport, the game hunted;
anjing pemburilan, huntingdogs.
burun, kambing burun, the serow
(nemorrhoedus swettenhami).
burut, hernia, rupture, hydrocele.
busana, Skr. raiment, ornamental
dress.
busar, a bow, an arc; the bow
for cleaning cotton; saperti kapas di-busar, like cotton after
cleaning (pure white), prov.;
saperti busar Ranjuna, like the
bow of Arjuna (a simile for a
beautiful arm); also busur.
busi, Hind. rice-bran.
busok, decayed (of animal matter); putrid, stinking; ban b.,
a bad smell; hati b., a bad disposition; naina b., an extremely
bad name.
busong, dropsical inflammation;
b. darah, an aneurism.
bustan, Pers. a garden; a pleasaunce.
busur, a bow = busar.
busut, an ant-hill.
buta, I. blind; b. larangan, myopia; b. tuli, blind and deaf;
pukul b. tuli, striking recklessly; membuta, (vulg.) to sleep
soundly. II. see bota. III. butabuta, a tree (cerbera odollam).
IV. China b., (corruption of a
Skt. word) a muhallil.
butang, Eng. a button; b. dasi, a
stud.

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