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DAMAR

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Berdaleh: to equivocate, to quibble, to evade
the point of a question, to beat about the
bush; Ht. Sri Rama (Maxw.), 37; Ht. Gul.
Bak., 21. Berdaleh-daleh: id. Hukim-ntya
tidak berdaleh-daleh: her (the Queen's) law
allows of no quibbling; Sh. Jub. Mal., 8.., damar. Resin, pitch, "datmmar," a torch.
Damar berpuloh-puooh batang: tens of torches;
Ht. Abd., 3I9. Saperti wayang kpadanman
datmar rupanya; like a theatre when the lights
go out; Ht. Mas Ed.
D. bat: common resin; resin found in lumps
at the roots of certain trees.
D. daging: a red soft danmar.
D. hitamt: the resin of balanocarpus penangianus.
D. laut: a valuable resinous tree, shorea utilis.
D. laut daun besar: id., shorea glauca.

D. mata kuching: the best kind of resin
known to the Malays; Muj., 51. It is
produced by the trees hopea globosa and
pachynocarpus wallichii.
D. minyak: a turpentine from the tree
dammara orientalis.
Jlcaga d.: the soot on a torch, the refuse of
burnt resinous wood, used by Malays as a sort
of poultice or fomentation (tzwami).
3,rt damak. The dart of a blow-pipe. Di-ambil
damak itu di-bubohkant-uya ipoh: he took the
dart and put poison on it; Ht. Abd., 39I.
Lengkap deugan damnak datn upas-nya: fully
equipped with darts and poison; Ht. Koris.
Tabong d.: the quiver used with these darts.
\..A damal. (Riau, Johor.) Slow to move, difficult to sail or row, of a boat.
AC\I daman. I. The sheet of a large sail. This
word is used by the rather cosmopolitan
Malay lascars; the word for the sheet of a
small Malay boat is tali kelat.
II. Burong daman: a bird (species unidentified); Pel. Abd., I 3.
4^,\ damuh. (Kedah.) Repulsively dirty; disgusting; the sensation of disgust.
\: damai. Settlement, peace; arrival at a good. understanding; Ht. Abd., 194.
Damaikan: to bring to a good understanding; to effect a settlement. Maka sembbahn-ya:
suwara orang berkelahi laki-bini telah sudah
patek damaikan: he said: there was the sound
of a man and his wife quarrelling, and I effected concord between them; Ht. Kal. Dam.,

DAUP
Berdamai: to be at peace. Berperang p un
tiyada, berdamai pun tiyada: they were not at
war, not yet were they at peace; Ht. Sh. Kub.
Berkelahi pun tiyada, bUrdamai piun tiyada:
id.; Sej. Mal., 126.
Perdamaikan: to bring about a settlement;
to reconcile; Muj., 86.
Perdamaiyan: a settlement, a peace, an
agreement; Sh. U., 27.
\. dan. I. And, furthermore.
II. Ability or time to manage anything.
Ta'-dan: it cannot be managed; impossible;
we can't do it in the time. Ta'-dan gesek
biyola hendak nEnari dahul: before we have
time to tune up the violins, he wants to start
dancing; Prov.
III. (Naning.) Your servant, I.
\z. dana. [Skr. ddna.] Gift, charity, alms.
3MeMrapu d.: to go a-begging; to wander about
in search of alms.
j\. danor. Putrid fluid exuding from a dead
body; a putrefying corpse. Bukan-nya ptda
babi makan danor znenek moyang engkau yangl
mati: not a pig to drink the putrid fluids from
your ancestors' bodies; Ht. Sh. Cf. also Sh.
Lail. Mejn., 29.
'\I. danau. (Riau, Johor.) A mere, a pool, a
tarn, a lake. Peri hIdl besar danau itut: regarding the size of that lake; Ht. Kal. Dam., 72.
Jika ada padang yang luwas di-jalani ntenjadi
danan daripada kebanyakan tantera yang berjalan itt: if they traversed a wide plain it
was (trampled) turned into a lake owing to
the numbers of the soldiers marching over it;
Ht. Ind. Jaya.
In Kedah the word is pronounced dantu.
In Selangor the word is used of treacherous
marshy ground; cf. lanyau.
Ular d.: (Province Wellesley) a rainbow;
(Riau, Johor) a name sometimes given to
the water-python, ular sawa rcndam; (Kedah)
a horse-headed spirit-snake.
dani. Speckled;-a dialectic variant of dandi,
q.v.
dawat. [Arab.;o.] Ink. D. mlas: gold
coloured writing fluid. Tehtpat d.; an inkstand.
D. warena-wnarena: inks of various colours;
Ht. Abd., 31. Berdawat biyar-lah hitam: if
you are smeared with ink, you may as well be
quite black; in for a penny, in for a pound;

Prov.
j)l& daud. Arab. David.
D.l daup. Broad, puffed out and sullen or heavy
looking,-of the face; beamy and heavy, of
a boat. Perahu daup-daup, or dedaup: a large
heavy type of boat used on the East Coast.

23.
Baik-lah tuwan-hamzba damaikan,
Dengan kambing mtenjadi kawan:
you, my Lord, had better make peace and
become the friend of the goat; Sh. Sg.
Kanch., i6...I