A Malay-English dictionary,

BIYAWAK [ 138 ] BETEK
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3j) biyawak. The "iguana" or monitor, Sej.
Mal., 86. Also (Kedah) bewak. In proverbs
the monitor is a typical unclean beast. Mendukong biyawak hidop: to fondle a live monitor;
to take an unclean beast into one's arms; Prov.
Niyat hati nak pRlok gunong,
Sudah berpglok bewak chilaka:
it was my wish to embrace a mountain and I
found a dirty monitor in my arms; I expected
honour and only found disgrace; Prov. Bewak kudong masok kampong: a short monitor
entering a village; a man falling among enemies; Prov. Lidah b.: a monitor's (forked)
tongue; deceptive, double-faced; Prov.
B. pasir: a species of monitor; hydrosaurus
bivittatus.
B. punggor: a short, thick, monitor-lizard;
hydrosaurus salvator.
Other varieties recognized by Malays are
b. puru, b. gabok, b. tikus, b. tembaga and
b. kudong.
Puru b.: a jungle fruit (unidentified).
Mcmbiyawak: to lie on the stomach; to crawl
as a lizard.
0\-. biyawan. An edible freshwater fish (unidentified).
LJ. biyaya. [Skr. vyaya.] Cost; expense; property for expending; capital. Bilek itu berisi
herta akan biyaya patek: the room is full of
property to meet my expenses; Ht. Mash.,
53. Jika berlebeh-lebehan pun herta-nya tiyada
di-biyayakan-nya pada diri-nya dan pada akhirat: even if the wealth was greater it could
not be expended both on selfish interests and
in the interests of eternity; Ht. Kal. Dam.,
31.
bebet or bibit. Carriage in the hand; the
lifting of light objects with the fingers; Sej.
Mal., I53. Also bimbit.,. bibir. The lip, or lip-like edge of anything.
Bibir-nya nipis: he had thin lips. Bibir-nya
yang di-atas itu menongkat hidong-nya: his
upper lip served as a prop to his nose. Bibirnya tebal: he was thick-lipped.
B. chawan: the edge of a tea-cup.
B. juweh: a hanging lower lip.
B. mata: the fringe of the eyelid.
B. meleweh: a very open lower lip, a lower
lip which exposes the teeth when the mouth
is at rest.
B. mulut: the lips. Tanam tMbu di-bibir
mulut: to plant sugar-cane on the lips; to
cultivate a plausible manner concealing a false
heart; Prov., J. S. A. S., I., 94.

B. tangan: the side of the hand; the further
side from the thumb. Also tembiring tangan.
Bibiran: a talkative person; a babbler.
Alor bibir: the hollow between the nostril
and the centre of the upper lip. Also lorah
hidong.

u-^ bebas. Freedom; liberty from restraint, freedom to be familiar; license. Bebas saprrti
orang dalam rumah-nya: as free as if he was
in his own house. Orang China Tien-te-hoe
itu tirlalu bebas-nya: the Chinese of the
Heaven and Earth Society took great liberties
(i. e. violated the law in the most daring
way); Ht. Abd., 325. Bebas-lah iya masok
kaluwar istana raja: he was free to go in and
out of the raja's palace; Ht. Gh. Mgnjadi
bebas-lah hamba raja di-dalam negiri: the
raja's followers did what they pleased in the
State; Pel. Abd., 22. Kebebasan: liberty from
restraint; Ht. Abd., 258.
oi bebek. Jav. A duck; Kam. Kech., 5.
Chakar b.: a plant; cotyledon laniata?
XC beban. Wicked, disobedient; obstinately
disobedient.
Budak nakal sangat beban,
Tiyada sa-kali menengar chakap:
the stupid boy is most disobedient; he pays
no attention to anything that is said to him.
bibi. Hind. Mistress, lady,-a title given to
Hindoo females by Malays; an aunt, especially
a younger sister of a parent; (by euphemism)
a mistress of a brothel; Ht. Kal. Darn., 62.
bait. I. Arab. House, seat, dwelling.
Baitu 'llah: the House of God. Baitu'l-mdl:
literally, the Exchequer, the Treasury, but
used more frequently in the sense of an
Escheat, or of property reverting to the
Crown.
Baitu'l-mukaddas: Jerusalem, Mith. Sar., 56;
Ht. Md. Hanaf., 86. Baitu'l-hardn: the
great temple at Mecca or any great central
temple.
II. Hind. A rhyming couplet; Ht. Ism.
Yat.. biyut. Biyang-biyut: zigzag, extending in
different directions.
aI, beta. Hind. Slave, servant; an expression
used as a pronoun of the first person by rajas
and people of rank when addressing equals;
Ht. Kal. Dam., 239. Sahdbat beta: my
friend; — an expression used by West Coast
rajas to describe an equal when addressing
him; = sahaibat kita, on the East Coast.
Membeta: to use the word beta in one's
speech. See also beti.

jI betek. Betek-betek: a bird something like a
long-tailed swallow.
Ikan betek-betek: a fish (unidentified).

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