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JAHTieRA

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JILAK

jaht5ra. [Skr. jaitra.]
rest; calm.

Sajahttra: peace;

if. jhe6nam. [Arab.jahannam.] Hell; gehenna;
destruction. Nuraka jelhnanm: hell; Ht. Jay.
Lengg. Sudah jehenam: utterly destroyed,
-a strong and somewhat coarse expression.
L$ -. jahudi. Jew, Jewish;- a variant of the
commoner (Arabic) form yahldzi.
jt. jahiz. Arab. Swift; speedy..~.. jib. See r
4U,. jebah. Berjebah: assorted, of merchandise;
in many varieties.
jitah. Akar jitah: a liana (unidentified).
Do. jejer or jijir. Row; line-as a line of soldiers,
a row of books, a row of figures. Kolam itu
tujoh sa-jejer: those ponds which are seven in
a row; Ht. Koris; cf. banjar, janjar and baris.;s. jijak. Step; tread; the contact of the foot
or lower extremity of anything with the ground;
the mark left by that contact; the place where
that contact takes place; the way in which
a person steps; grace or dignity of bearing.
Mati rusa karuna jijak, mati kuwang karena
bunyi: the deer dies through its traces, the
argus pheasant through its note; Prov. Digantong keduwa belah tangan-nya tiyada berjijak kaki-inya: he was hung up by both hands
so that his feet could not touch the floor.
Rambut berjijak tengkok: hair long enough to
fall about his neck. A kar tidak berjijak dibuni: roots that do not touch the ground,
i. e., floating roots such as those of the kiyambang; cf. pijak.
J jejeh. I. Spilling or leaking in drops or
small quantities at a time-as water from an
overful or slightly leaking bucket.
II. Teasing. Usually ejek..A? jidar. [Arab. )im.] The "walls" within
which type is confined; the lines which
appear round a page of printed matter in
some books; lines ruled round a letter; Ht.
Abd., 273.
L-S. jedi. [Arab. A..] A pause; a break; an
intermission. Ta'-berjedi: without intermission; uninterruptedly; Bint. Tim., 2
January, I895.
O-~. jirin. [Arab. plur. of,.] Relatives. Kita

ini jirdn yang tMrlebeh hampir dingan diya: we
are his next of kin; Bint. Tim., 4 April,
I895.

j~. jirat. [Arab. r.j?] A Chinese or other
non-Muhammadan grave. Buwang bunga kajirat: to waste flowers on a heathen grave; to
waste sweetness on desert air; Prov.
Jwr' jirus. Besprinkling; better dirus.
L/?- jirak. A common little tree in secondary
jungle, eurya acuminata.
p<t- jirai. Sa-jirai: a strip, a small quantity;
of the same strip or quantity; similar in kind.

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jel. Eng. A gaol; a prison.
jela. Berjela or berjela-jela: trailing along
slackly or loosely; getting loose and trailing
along the ground-as the entrails of a horse
gored by a bull, or as the bowels of the penanggalan evil spirit; cfjuntai, which means merely
hanging loosely, and not trailing on any surface. Panjang berjela: long and trailing; Sh.
Jub. Mal., I6. Bulang-nya putus brjelajela:
the fastenings (of the spur) broke and trailed
along the ground; Sh. Bur. Pung., I6. Perutnya berjela-jela: its bowels hanging down;
Ht. Abd., 155, 156. Rumput di-bawa berjelajela: the grass was borne trailing along; Sh.
Jur. Bud., 30. Kendor berde-ting-deting, tegang
berjela-jela: the loose taut, and the tight
trailing; everything done the wrong way;
Prov.

jilat. Licking; licking up-as a dog laps up
his food, or (by metaphor) as a tongue of fire
consumes anything. Jika tuwanku hendak
bangat-bangat semboh jilat-lah gelala di-kerongkongan langit-langit hamba ini: if you, my
Lord, desire an immediate recovery, lick the
bezoar stone in the roof of my mouth; Ht.
Jay. Lengg.
Sudah ludah laln di-jilat: to spit and then
lick up one's own spittle; very dirty conduct,
used especially of the act of a donor who
wants a gift back, or of a man who, having
divorced his wife, consents to receive her back
by the medium of a muhallil; Prov., J. S. A.
S., II., I40. Tiyada terjilat uleh anjing,
tiyada tersudu uleh itek: the dogs won't lick it
up, the ducks will not spoon it up with their
bills; a thing which even unclean feeders
turn up their noses at; an utterly vile thing;
Prov., J. S. A. S., XI., 56.
MAejilat: to lick up; to lap up; to consume, of a tongue of flame. Maka api itu-pun
padanlah szndiri-nya tiyada dapat mnzjilat
Betara KSsna: then the fire went out of its
own accord, having failed to consume the great
God Krishna; Ht. Sg. Samb.
l?- jilit. Book-binding, a volume;-a colloquial
variant of (Arab.) >-, q. v.
jL. jilak. The store room in the bows of a native
sailing vessel.

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