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baidl. Arab. Whiteness, albumen, egg.
bai'. Arab. Trade, traffic; Majm. al-Ahk.,
12, 21, 40.
biyang. I. Mother; dam-of animals. B.
tangan: the thumb.
II. Lascivious, erotic; sexually excited.
Tfrjlrit-jerit bagai kuching biyang: screeching
like a lascivious cat; Prov., J. S. A. S., III.,
28. Usually giyang and miyang.
III. Ikan biyang-biyang: a fish (unidentified); Sh. Ik. Ter., 7, i2.

beka. I. Berbeka: to talk over anything; to
discuss any subject; to gossip. Sa-hari-hari
dudok berbeka: sitting and gossiping day after
day; Sh. Pant. Shl., I. Telah sudah berbeka:
when they had discussed it; Ht. Best.
II. Kuweh beka: a native-made pastry;=
kuweh bingka. Also bika.
III. Pokok beka: (Kedah) a tree, parkia
roxburghii. Keris buwah b.: a kris, the point
of which is rounded off like a table knife,-so
called from its resemblance to the lower end
of the fruit of this tree, elsewhere known as
pRtai.

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Virginity; v. J..

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piyut.

Biyang-biyut: zigzag.

Also piyang

' bengut. Twisted, awry.
^i^ bingit. A feeling of ill-defined uneasiness; a
sensation of impending illness; to be out of
sorts, to be not quite oneself.
bingar. I. Siput b.: a shell; voluta diadema.
II. Growling; = bingas, q. v.
bingas. Menacing, growling, working itself
up to spring or charge-of a wild animal; cf.
bengis.
bingong. Dullness; confusion of mind; not
to have one's wits about one,-the converse
of cherdek; temporary dullness of intellect, as
when one is dazed by unexpected occurrences
and loses one's presence of mind. Bingong
ta'-dapatdi-ajar, cherdek ta'-dapat di-ikut: in his
dullness he is not to be taught, in his shrewdness he is not to be followed; incorrigible
when dull, and an unsafe guide when shrewd;
Prov. Cherdek makan si-bingong: the wise
devour the dull; the fittest survive; Prov.,
J. S. A. S., III., 34. Bingong saperti budak:
taken aback like a child; Sh. Dag., II.
Bingong tiyada ber'akal: dullness from want
of intelligence; Sh. Ik. Trub., 5..,aL bepa. Chin. A cake made of rice and sugar.
Also bepang.
a. biyak. I. Increase of numbers as the result
of reproduction; fruitful, prolific-of animals.
Sakaliyan-nya menjadi biyak: they all multiplied; Pel. Abd., 93.
Daun b., or pokok b.: (Kedah and Perak) a
plant, mitragyne speciosa.
Memamah b.: to chew the cud.

bekang, or bikang. A cake; a small pie,
Sej. Mal., 82; = bingka and beka, II?
biken. [Singapore and Penang.] To do; to
make; = buwat; Ht. Abd., 346.
~.. biku. I. [Pali bhikku.] A mendicant Buddhist priest; an ascetic. Segala ajar-ajaran biku
berhatmman: all the disciples, mendicants and
priests; Ht. Sh.; Ht. Raj. Bdk., 49. Biyarlah iya menjadi biku kesosma sakti: let him
become a mendicant (in the service) of the
mighty God of love; Ht. Koris. Biku bertapa di-muka pintu: the mendicant is doing
penance before the gate; Ht. Ind. Meng.
II. A zigzag pattern; carved with a toothed
edge like a saw; cf. bengkook, ikut, siku, etc.
Peti b.: a box with a carved edge; Ht. Sh.
d~I bega. Aiming by pointing a javelin or spear
at another and swaying it backwards and
forwards before hurling it; holding a fightingcock, moving it towards its antagonist and
then drawing it back by way of exciting it;
Ht. Raj. Don., 62.
Buwah rembega di-bawah dulang
Rama rama terbang ka-Jawa;
A dek te'mbega, abang mtembulang,
Sama-sama mzembuwang nyawa:
the younger holds the bird, the elder fastens
the spurs on it, and together they risk their
lives.
Bega is also used of holding an animal's
throat to the knife.
-j begap. Robust; firm set; strongly built; K1.
begak. Foppish; dressed up to the nines.
Meembegak: to play the dandy or dude.

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