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i..? b6lachak. I. (Kedah.) Ikan btlachak: a
fish (unidentified). B. minyak: a variety of
this fish.
II. Common, because plentiful; C. and S.
bblachan. A kind of preserve made of dried
prawns and fish; Ht. P. J. P., Muj., 65.
SapErti k ra k1na bglachan: like a monkey
smeared with shrimp-paste; fidgety; Prov.
Ay. b6lachu. Unbleached cotton cloth; also kain
m ntah. B. kelarai, and b. minyak: varieties
of unbleached cloth.
n.y. bgladau. A broad dagger; a short sword of a
Turkish type. Pedang b.: id., Sej. Mal.,
I88, 234.
According to C. and S. the term would seem
to be also applied to a small dagger which
can be secreted in the hair.

Mmrnbelakang: to have one's back turned
towards anything; to turn the back on anything; Pel. Abd., 34. Membe-lakangi: id.; Sh.
Ungg. Bers., 26. Membelakangkan: id.; Ht.
Ind. Nata.
Tulang belakang: the backbone; the dorsal
vertebrae.

blaking.
Muj., 35.
K1.

Eng. Blacking; tar; coal tar;
Also ( Riau) btlangkin, and belakin,

j.L b6ladu. (Kedah.) Burong bDladu: a bird
(unidentified); = (Riau, Johor) burong beledu:
q. v.

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b6laram.

[ Arab. balgham. ]

( Kedah. )

Phlegm, mucus; v. Hi.

4 bglasah. I. Repeated blows with a rattan;
the bastinado.
II. A river fish-trap used in Kedah.
&4c. balaghat. Arab. Eloquence, rhetoric.
c! belanga. A large unglazed earthenware
cooking vessel; a chatty; Ht. Koris, Ht.
Abd., 104, 132, etc.
Dayong tudong b.: long sweeps with round
blades such as are occasionally used by
Tamil tongkang men.
4,I) bulangan. A thorny shrub; gmelina villosa
' and canthium horridunm; v. bulang.
_ l0 b6laka. Quite; thoroughly; altogether; to the
bitter end. Muda belaka: quite young. Bohong dan bodoh belaka: altogether lying and
foolish; Ht. Abd., 72. Genap belaka dalam
behasa Melayu: thoroughly versed in Malay;
Ht. Abd., 50.
X. b$lakang. The back; the posterior; the
rear; the hinder portion; (by metaphor) the
future; posterity.
B. tangan: the back of the hand.
Buwang b.: to run away; Ht. Mar. Mah.
Di-bElakang: behind, on the back, in future.
Orang orang yang di-belakang: future generations; Ht. Abd., 89. Hinggap di-bllakang
kerbau: alighting on a buffalo's back.

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I?y.' blakin. Eng. Blacking; b= baking, q. v.
93. bilAl. Arab. A muezzin, a caller to prayerso called from the name of the first man who
performed this duty in the days of the Prophet.
In Java, the word modin (properly s,, ) is
used.
I b b6lalang. A generic name for crickets, grasshoppers, locusts, et hoc genus omne. The following varieties are recognised: b. bhras (Ht. Raj.
Don., 56), b. chengkadok, b. daun, b. gambar, b.
gok, b. hantu, b. jamban, b. jarom, b. jongkong,
b. kemahang, b. kunyet, b. menerong, b. mupor,
b. padi, b. patong, b. pikat, b. polong, b. ranting
(phasma gigas), b. sakachong, b. sireh, and many
others.
Belalang telah menjadi lang: grasshoppers
have become kites; the mean have become
great; Prov. Di-tenpat tiyada lang kata belalang aku-lah lang: in a place where no hawk
is, the grasshopper will say: " I am a hawk; "
a triton among minnows; Prov.
Gigi b.: black teeth.
Ikan b.: a fish, exoccetus mento.
Mata b.: prominent eyes.
Paha b.: the thigh of a grasshopper, a simile
for a much admired curve of a thigh.
Pak b.: a mythical personage famed for the
good luck which saved him from the scrapes
his folly kept getting him into. Mujor pak
b.: the devil's own luck.
Petai b.: trees with red curled pods; pithecolobium microcarpunm, and pithecolobium angulatumn.
jy. belalak. To have the peculiar staring look
common to people with diseases of the eye;
to have a fixed gaze or look about the eyes.

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b6lalah. Given up to gluttony.
than ptlahap, q. v.

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bilalai. The trunk or proboscis of an elephant.
Belalai-nya saperti kSpala ular hUndak nmemagut:
its trunk was as the head of a snake when
about to strike; Ht. Sg. Samb.

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