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dendang. The droning chorus of a Malay
song. Menarek nyanyi berdendang-dendang: to
lengthen out a song in long droning chorus;
Sh. Kumb. Chumb., 6. Orang berdendang: a
singer; a man singing from lightness of
spirits; (by extension) a man who feels happy.

L -J dendeng. I. Jerked meat; strips of meat
dried in the sun.
II. Dendengkan: (Riau) to hold up a piece
of paper to the light in order to examine its
texture. Cf. dinding.;) ddinding. A screen, an inner wall or partition
in a house; to screen. Dinding-nya kajang:
its inner walls were of kajang matting; Ht.
Abd., 224. Dinding ada, bumbong tidak:
with walls but no roof; (by metaphor) coated,
but hatless.
Dindingan: serving as a screen or partition.
Papan d.: the partition planks; Sh. Bur.
Pungg., 8. Kain d.: a screen used at the
bathing ceremony in a Malay wedding; Sh.
Sri Ben., 50.
Dindingkan: to screen off; Ht. Abd., 350.
MeZnndndingkan: id.; also, to shelter, to
protect. Metindindigkan diya daripada kena
mata: to protect him from the evil eye;
Muj., 32.
Pendinding: a screen or protection; protective. Do'd p.: prayers or invocations
protective against evil spirits and sorcerers;
J. I. A., I., 309.?J dondang. (Onom.) A lullaby, a song to a
child; the crooning of such a song; the
lullaby to send the Princess to sleep, in a
ma'yong, q. v.; (by extension) the swinging
cradle in which a child is rocked and lulled to
sleep. Tali d.: the ropes of this swinging
cradle; Sh. Sri Ben., 60. Kain d.: the cloth
laid in the swing of this cradle. Kain dondangan: id.; Sh. Sri Ben., 52.
r.;. d6ndam. Longing, pining for; the longing
of appetite, love or hatred; lust, malice.
Perkataan manis hati-nya dendam: soft words,
and a malicious heart; Sh. Lamp., 17. Rindu
d.: pining. Sangat-lah rindu dendam rasa-nya
kakanda akan negbri dan ayah bonda kakanda:
I feel a most intense longing (to revisit) my
country and my parents; Ht. Gul. Bak., 42.
MInaroh d.: to harbour a grudge; Ht. Abd.,
I76. D. berahi: the longings of love.
Dendamkan: to long for.
Berdendam: to harbour feelings of hostility;
Ht. Abd., 253..,JX; dandan. I. The projecting balconies or platforms in some types of native vessels. D.
haluwan: the prow platform; Sh. Sri Ben.,
II.
II. Also dendan, q. v.

0 JJJ d6ndan. Setting in order, arranging; putting
right,-used especially of plaiting and arranging the hair. Razmbt-nya ikal bagai di-dendan:
her hair was wavy as though it had been
dressed; Sh. Abd. Mk.
Berdendan: to plait the hair; Sh. Lamp.,
36; Ht. Ind. Meng.
Budak-budak pandai berdendan,
Dendan rambut lipan imelata;
Kalau pandai diri-nya simpan
Jalan yang chla orang ta'-kata:
the children are clever at plaiting, at dressing
the hair in the "creeping centipede" plait.
Sa-dendan: in this way, in this fashion; Ht.
Koris.; = sa-lakn. Tiyada berdendan: in no
arrangement, in confusion; Ht. Gul. Bak.,
30; - tiyada berketahuwan.
Awai d.: plait ornament, in art.
j3AJJ dondon. Colour or pattern of clothing. Sadondo: of one pattern, identical in pattern,of the baju and sarong, or coat and trowsers.
cSJL. dandi. I. Small Tamil cymbals; a musical
instrument often mentioned in literature
(though there spoken of as a string instrument); Ht. Raj. Sul., 6; Ht. Sri Rama; Ht.
Koris; Ht. Ind. Nata; Sh. Kumb. Chumb.,
II.
II. Speckled, spotted. Harinman d.: a
small speckled leopard. Rusa d.: a speckled
deer. Selaseh d.: a species of selaseh (sweetbasil).
J d6nak. Short-legged, stumpy. Ayam d.: a
jungle fowl. The word denak is also used of
decoys or tamed birds used for attracting and
catching wild ones of the same species.
Kerbau d.: a buffalo used for driving or
leading other buffaloes into the pen.
iLj... dinihari. The dawn, the very early morning,
daybreak; Cr. Gr., 63. See dina, II.
c dbnai. A wild-beast track; a beaten track
through the jungle. Saperti anjing melintang
denai: like a dog crossing the track of a wild
beast; much excited; Prov. J. S. A. S.,
XXIV., 92. Bagai denai gajah lanu: like a
track made by the passage of an elephant;
like the trace of a bull's passage through a
china-shop; Prov.
\A dunya. Arab. The world; the earth in contradistinction to heaven. Dunya ini pasar
akhirat: the world is the mart where eternity

is bought and sold; Ht. Sult. Ibr., 6. Hilang
luput-lah ke-elokan dunya: the beauty of the
world has left me and slipped from my gaze;
Ht. Gul. Bak., 5. Piridaran d.: the chances
and changes of mortal life; Ht. Abd., I79..\; danisuwara. [Skr. dhaneswara: lord of the
kingdom.] A name given to the God Kuwera.

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