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JANGKA

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s jangka. I. A pair of compasses (for measuring); the exact measurement; the exact
quantity of space allowed for any purpose
after verification by actual measurement.
Pnazm uloh koyan muwat di-jangka: sixty koyans capacity by actual measurement-of a
ship; Sh. Peng., 13. Sa-tglah sampai-lah
jangka-nya: when the exact limits measured
off (for excavation purposes) had been
reached; Ht. Abd., 64. Bagai di-jangka: as
if it had been exactly measured off; Ht. Raj.
Don., 44. Korang dari jangka: below the
average.
Jangka is used of any instrument or method
of exact measurement; for instance, in slitting
mntgkuwang the jangka is a piece of wood
with 4 or 5 points according to the number
of strips required.
II. (Probably identical with I.) The time;
the proper time; the fixed or appointed time.
Apa-bila ntalam sampai-lah jangka: when it
was night and the time had come; Sh. Put.
Ak., 26.
III. Youthful, unmarried. Also jaka and
jangga.
jangkat. A shallow, a mud-bank; usually
changkat, q. v.
- jangkit. I. Dissemination without visible
and tangible connection; spreading as an
epidemic disease or as a fire which spreads by
unseen channels. Sopak kedal chelaka ini,
entahkan jangkit akan aku pula: this miserable
skin-diseased wretch, who knows,-perhaps he
may infect me too; Ht. Best. Sakit berjangkit: infectious sickness.
Menjangkit: to spread by leaps and bounds;
to burst out in different and apparently unconnected spots.
Orang China berkata api datang dari langit,
Sebab itl-lah iya beljangkit-jangkit:
the Chinese said that the fire had come down
from heaven, and that it thus came to pass
that it broke out here and there; Sh. K. G. T.,
14.
II. Pierced by a barbed point or thorn, but
not necessarily held back by it.
Padi piult di-dalam bendang,
Banyak rumput dengan jerami;
Mulut kita di-suwap pisang,
Buntut kita di-jangkit duri:
bananas are thrust into our mouths, and
thorns into our backs; to do a bad turn under
cover of a good one; Prov. Jangkit is also
used to describe the process of attaching the
bait to the hook.,S:, j~jngket. Walking on one's heels; motion or
action on one end only, the other end being
raised aloft; cf. jongkit. Menjtngket: to walk
on one's heels. Menjlngket jari: to eat using
one's index finger and thumb only, the other
three fingers being affectedly extended to invite

attention to their beauty. Rambut lnenjengket:
hair that insists on rising; a fringe (andant,
q. v.) that will not be waxed down to adhere
to the forehead-a sign believed unfavourable
to a girl's past chastity; Sh. Peng., 4.
jengket. Walking on tiptoe by preference
and without pain, as a Malay whose heel has
got dirty and who wishes to avoid soiling a
mat over which he is walking.:;,, jengkot or jingkat. Walking painfully on
tiptoe or on the side of one's foot, as the
result of a wound in the foot.
S jongkat. Jongkat-jongkit: unsteady, see-sawing; v.jongkit.
> jongkit. The rise of the tail, point or hinder
extremity of anything by a sort of see-saw
motion; tilted up at the tip. Anjing di-tepok
kepala lenjongkit ekor: pat a dog on the head
and up goes his tail; show attention to a brute
and he will requite you with an insult; Prov.
Lantaipechah terjongkit: a floor of loose planks
which rise and fall when trodden on; Sh.
Kamp. Boy., Io.
Jongkanzg-jongkit: swaying, unsteady, seesawing (as the planks in a loose or bad floor);
Ht. Ind. Meng. Jongkang-jongkitan: id.; Pel.
Abd., 89. Jongkat-jongkit: id.
X, jangkar. I. [Dutch: anker? ] Jangkar
dewi: a cat-head. Sauh j.: a grapnel.
II. Spreading above ground, of the roots of
a tree; exposed altogether as the roots of the
mangrove, as opposed to the form taken by
roots such as those of some trees which run
half buried along the surface of the soil, or as
others such as those of the areca-nut palm
which, though exposed, grow in a solid cluster
and enclose no air space.
j. jingkir. A platform on which a recentlyconfined woman is laid by Malay midwives
in order that she may be warmed by a fire lit
underneath; v. diyang.
<J, jongkar. Projecting; sticking out; causing
a prominence, as a keris in a bundle of
shorter objects.
J. jongkir: sticking out in various directions
-as a number of swords and daggers stuck in
a man's belt.
jongkir. Jongkar-jongkir: bristling with
* points, sticking out in different directions (of
points); v. jongkar.

\<j. jangkarayu. A bird (unidentified). Jangka' rayu kunun mlengatur sarang: the jangkarayu
is said to be building its nest; Sh. Bur.
Pung., 4.
j-. j6ngk6ring. A malignant eruptive disease.

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