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CHAKAR

Orang hutan masok ka-tegeri,
Perak changak kanan kiri:
when jungle dwellers enter a village they cast
frightened glances to right and left of them.;.X. changok. Sitting with a curving neck —of
the attitude of a hawk on a bough.
\. chapa. I. A plant, the leaves of which are
used in medicine, blutea balsantifera; Ht.
Koris.
II. The name of a game played by two
persons. Three holes are made in a row
along the ground and two balls are used.
ft\. chapar. A wooden wash-tub; better chapaih,
q. v.
y>. chapang. Wide, expanding-of buffalo horns
which do not curve quickly.
x. chaping or chapeng. A metal plate or
tablet worn by very young female children to
conceal the nudities (also tampok ch.); the
iron moveable cover of a keyhole; the moveable covers of the lockers in the bows and
stern of a boat.
Tulang ch.: the xiphoid process; also tulang
lzt hati and tulang sudi hati.
jj. chapak. I. Negligence; inattention; underestimating the importance of anything;
slighting; contempt; inattention as the result
of ignorance as well as of deliberate purpose.
Di-changak sangat sudah-lah dada kelihatan:
she paid no attention to the fact that her
bosom was exposed (not knowing that there
were male spectators present); Ht. Ind.
Meng.
Sa-orang dagang sangat bongkak.-ya
NVgeri kita di-perchapak-nya:
a stranger, puffed up with conceit, has treated
this, our city, with disdain; Sh. Peng,, 7.
A bang, wel! jangan chapak permudahz: oh,
my brother, do not contemptuously make
light of it; Sh. Sh. Al., 43.
II. Ancestors in the sixth generation; K1.
cj.. chapek. I. Limping gait; halting as the
result either of a strain, sore or permanent
malformation; paralyzed, of the lower limbs.
Rzsa yang chapiek: a limping deer; Ht. Kal.
Dam. Orang buta dan chapek: the blind and
the halt; Ht. Pg. Ptg.
Ch. riyoh: lame as the result of a broken
bone which has not set properly; Sej. Mal.,
I34. Also (Kedah) ch. ruwit.
II. [Jav. and Sund.] Tired; worn; weary.

APcz chapok. (Vulgar.) A certain very gross
insult; a form of obscene conduct indulged
in by an angry woman to express extreme
contempt for any person or object.

~v>. chapal. A shoe or sandal (from Palembang)
consisting of a leathern sole with a band over
the instep, and a thong passing between the
big toe and its neighbour; IHt. Abd., 231.
\>-. chapul. (Kedah.) Loose careless language.
Jangan chakap chapul di-sungai; buwaya ganas
do not talk rashly near a river, alligators are
daring; Prov. See chabul.
4a3 chapah. A round unpainted wooden washtub of Burmese make.

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chapai. The act of taking into the hand;
getting a good grip of anything; grasping or
seizing. Tiyada bileh chapai: beyond seizure-an expression used of objects out of
reach without any special sense of taking into
the hand. Di-pandang dekat di-chapai ta'bileh: in appearance close at hand, (in
reality) beyond all reach; the heavens; Prov.,
J. S. A. S., XXIV., I04. Pohlunt-ya tinggi
tiyada buleh chapai: the tree was high and it
(the flower) was out of reach; Ht. Koris.
MAnIchappai: to seize, grasp, or take into the
hand. Mlaka tangan-nya menchapai duwa
bItwah gltnong yang besar-besar: his hand
grasped two huge mountains; Ht. Sg. Samb.
Si-chabul hzundak Ftlchapai bulan: the low
swaggerer who wanted to seize the moon;
presumption; Prov., v. chabul.
Rlibu-ribu daun melamnpai,
Jatoh sa-kali di-pohiun maja;
3Iaski sa-ribu hIndak mltchapai,
Tidak buleh di-dapat sghaja:
he needs must grasp a thousand things, he
cannot get a single one; Prov., Ht. Ind.
Meng. Cf. sampai, champai, amnpai, etc.
chakat. I. A shallow, a bank; better
chaitgkat, q. v.
II. Chakatan: quickness; nimbleness; agility
of movement.
III. [Skr.jagat.] The world; better jagat,
q. V.
chakar. I. A claw; a talon; the act of
clawing or scratching; scratching the ground
with a rake; the results of clawing; scratches.
Ch. ayamt (i) the marks left by fowls
scratching up the soil in search of food-a
simile for bad hand-writing; Ht. Abd., 39; (2)
a kind of cake make of ubi kaledek, tfpong
jawi, etc.
Ch. balar: (Riau, Johor) scratched and
scarred in all directions-as a man who has
had to force his way through prickly
undergrowth in the jungle; Ht. Abd., 342.
Also (Kedah) ch. bara.
Ch. bebek, ch. itek or tapak itek: a weed,
cotyledon laniata?

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