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jajat. Imitation; mimicry; teasing or annoyance by mimicking some defect, cf. chachat;
(rare) the counterfeiting of coin.
Orang tempang jangan di-jajat,
Ingat ingat hari bilakang;
Rumah burok di-sapu chat,
Bunga layu sa-mola kembang:
do not mimic the man who limps; remember,
remember the days that are coming; he is a
new house that is painted afresh, he is a faded
bud which is blooming again;-the last two
lines describing an old dandy.

Adapun perasaan patek bukan ular isi hutan,
naga jadi-jadiyan rupa tuwanku: in my humble
opinion, it is no common snake of the jungle,
it is a dragon of supernatural origin, Your
Highness! Ht. Ind. Jaya.
Jadikan and menjadikan: to create; to
make. Di-jadikan akandiya khtib: they
appointed him khdtib (of their mosque).
Perenpuwan di-jadikan-nya laki-laki: he turned
women into men; Ht. Gul. Bak., 58.

Kejadiyan; creation;
ence; Ht. Abd., 88,
state; Ht. Zaly., 41.

birth; origin of exist410, 450; condition,,jrA. jajar. A row or line; drawn up in a row or
line-of articles like staves, palings, posts
and masts, or of ships drawn up so that their
masts suggest a fence. Karang terjajar: a
reef; a row of jagged rocks; a line of breakers;
Pel. Abd., Ino. Cf. janjar and banjar.
rb.. jajas. Abrasion, scratching; usually jejas,
q. v.
4> - jajah. I. Hawking about, selling from door
to door; usually jaja, q. v.
II. Jajahan or jejahan: district; out-lying
territories. Negri Johor dengan segala da'irah
jajahan-nya: the state of Johor with all its
territories and dependencies.

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Ginger; Muj., 54. Better po. q. v.

s.- jada. [Pers. zadah.] Born, son of,-but always used in a bad sense either as an abbreviation of hardm-zadah (bastard) or as a
descriptive epithet for evil spirits, the children
of evil. Hai raksasa bukakan pintu, hai jada
bukakan kunchi-mu, insdn hendak lalu: Spirit of
Evil, open the gate; oh, misbegotten one, open
your lock; a man wishes to pass the portals;
(from an invocation).
>- jadam. A kind of extract of aloes used in
' native medicine; a very bitter draught.
cJ. jadi. Generation; coming into existence;
becoming. A ku-pun jadi-lah: I came into
being; I was born; Ht. Abd., 15. Saudara
sa-jalan sa-jadi: twin brothers; Ht. Sh. Kub.
Ayer madu jadi daripada lebah: honey is
created by bees; Ht. Abd., 25.
Jadi is also used idiomatically of a thing
turning out satisfactorily or leading to anything or being sufficient to effect the desired
object. Jikalau buleh memzbacha Kurdn sehaja
jadi-lah: if he could only read the Koran it
was all that was wanted; Ht. Abd., 26.
Kalau tiyada padi sa-barang kleja ta'-jadi: if
you have no rice, all you try will lead to
nothing; if you are weak, it is best to put up
with an injury; J. S. A. S., III., 37.
Jadi-jadiyan: supernatural creation; generated by magic art; a ghostly being. 'Ilmu
jadi-jadiyan: the Black Art; Ht. Mar. Mah.

>\. jara. An instrument for cleaning coarse
cotton wool; a piece of bamboo the end of
which is divided by two slits cut at right
angles to each other, and in which short pegs
are inserted. The wordjara is also used of
a kind of auger, and of an instrument for
churning milk.
Kepala j.: butter; the result of churning
milk.,- >>- jaras. I. A creel; a kind of basket of
coarsely plaited bamboo for carrying rice.
Jaras kata-nya raga jarang: the creel says that
the basket (raga) is coarsely plaited; the pot
called the kettle black; Prov., J. S. A. S., I.,
97.
II. A bunch or handful of any objects when
the objects themselves are not held in the
hand, but their stalks or loose ends are.
Orang China sa-jaras: a bunch of Chinese-as
when a Malay policeman holds a number of
Chinese by the pigtail. Bulu-nya endah bagai
di-jaras: its plumage was as lovely as if it had
been specially arranged; Sh. Bur. Pung., 5..-?- jarang. Scarcity; scarce; in small quantity;
occurring at rare intervals; separated by wide
intervals of time, or by wide interstices of
space. Jarang-jarang-lah kita me-nengar khabarkhabar perompak itu hampir kamaari: it was
only on very rare occasions that we heard
reports of pirates being in our vicinity; Ht.
Abd., 464. Ayakan jarang: a sieve or sifter
plaited with wide interstices. Cf. jaras.
Jarang gigi: the name of a fish..\>. jaring. A large net; network; nets for catching relatively large fish such as the tenggiri,
tamban, rapang and kedeira, or for catching
animals and birds on land. Jaring-jaring:
trellis-work; timbers carried lengthwise on
the bottom of a boat, cf. jala-jala and mata
punai. Jaring-jaring payong: the spikes holding an umbrella open.
MLnjaring: to fish with these nets; Ht. Gh.
Me-njaring angin: to catch air in one's net;
to waste one's time and trouble; Prov.
Penjaring: a fisherman; Ht. Kal. Dam., I57.

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