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* bunchis. [ Dutch boontjes.] Lentils, pease;
used of French beans; Malay Phys., I65.
f. banchang. I. Membanchang: to hinder; to
prevent; K1.
II. To chatter; to prattle; KI., = meranchang?
benchang. To scull.
i. binchang. Binchang ayam: the name of a
peculiar knot or fastening of great strength;
the string is wrapped in coils round the object
it is secured to.
binchul. A slight inflammation on the forehead; see benjol.
\. bonchol. A knob-like protuberance. Cf.
bonjol, bujal, benjol and benjil.
banchau. (Singapore.) Mixing, kneading;
cf. banchoh and kachau.
'@ banchoh. Mixing; kneading.
j4 benchah. Very moist or damp; damp or
slushy ground; a morass. Cf. bechah.. banchi. I. A toll; a census; an enumeration per capita; a poll-tax.
II. (Tamil.) A species of adze.
III. Jav. A hermaphrodite.
b6nchi. Hatred; to hate. Benchi dan marah
dan dezgki: hatred and anger and spite.
Benchikan; and membenchikan: to hate
(more rarely) to make some one else hate.
Orang yang di-benchikan-nya di-beratkan-nya:
he was oppressive to those whom he hated;
Ht. Abd., 476. Benchikan sianu pada segala
petrmnpuwan yang lain: make So-and-so hate
all women but myself; cf. pembenchi, infra.
Kebe'nchiyan: a cause or source of hatred, a
thing detested.
Pimbenchi: a drug or charm to excite hatred
in the breast of anyone against a third party.
Di-beri-nya santap sireh penbenchi supaya Koris
MEngindra benchikan tunangan-nya: she gave
him (Koris Mengindra) charmed sireh to eat,
so that he might hate his betrothed; Ht.
Koris.
AX b6nda. [Skr. banda.] A thing,-especially
an article of value. Tiyap tiyap benda yang
morah heMrga-nya itu dapatiyada ada-lah 'aib-nya;
any article that is being sold cheap is sure to
have some fault in it; Ht. Abd., 38.

Mata benda: article of vertu, gems, valuable
property in small compass. Herta benda:
property generally.
Benda is also sometimes used as a euphemism
for the female organs; Ht. Gul. Bak., 6o,
87. Cf. hakk.

-A bonda. I. Mother (in polite and Court
diction);= ibu'nda. Ayah bonda: parents.
Ayahanda bonda: id.
Bonda Sultan: the Sultan's mother; Sej.
Mal., 102.
II. The name of a tree; artocarpus
pubescens, P.

b.ndari. [Hind. bhdnddri.]

A sea-cook.

J\&W. b6ndala. [Port. bandala.] A bandolier.
A\/~ bdndalu. A shrub, henslowia lobbiana. See
banalu.
J\. b6ndawat. A stay of cordage; lashings; Ht.
Raj. Don., i6.,J~a bandut. To bind; to fasten; to bind up
anything that is cracked or split; the piece of
metal which fastens the base of a blade to the
blade itself in certain Malay weapons; C.
and S. Cf. bendawat.
bandar. I. Pers. A trading town; an
emporium; a port on a sea or river. Shahbandar: a harbour master; an officer of high
rank who acts as a sort of superintendent of
trade and proctor peregrinus.
Kawan b.: the officers under the Shah-bandar.
II. A watercourse. Gunong padang tasek
bandaran: mountains and plains; lakes and
watercourses; Ht. Ind. Meng. Bandar a.:
(Malacca) the little watercourses through the
padi-fields...:c b6ndir. A kind of gong used by criers to
call attention; Ht. Sh. Also bende.
j bundar. Rounded, roundish, globular; a
common description of a beautiful breast; Sh.
Panj. Sg., Ht. Ind. Jaya. This word is a
Javanese variant of buntar, q. v.
X4..j bandarsah. [Arab. A corruption, through
the intermediate form mandarsah, of the word
madrasah.] A private chapel or mosque; Ht.
Abd., 229; Ht. Sh. Mard. The word is also
used of a religious school attached to such a
mosque.
- band6ring. Jav. A sling; KI.
)Xl bendbrang. I. Tombak b.; or lembeng b.:
a spear with a tuft of horsehair attached to it;
a spear of state.
B. kanan, and b. kiri: the appellations of
the officers (subordinate to the bentara) who
bear these spears of state; Ht. Hg. Tuw., 31.
Pembawa b.: a state spear-bearer; Sh. Ik.
Trub., i9.
II. All-pervading,-of brilliant light.
Terang benderang: all-pervading brightness;
light that reveals all; Ht. Abd., 363; Sh. Pr.
Turki, 14.

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