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s6gi. Side, corner, angle. nmpat s., or ~mpat
psggi: square. Intan bersggi'-sgi: a diamond
with many facets, Ht. Sh. Kub. Sa-putar
'dlam tpsegi: round every side of the earth;
Sh. Panj. Sg.
Mtsegi: (Kedah) square; four-sided, of a piece
of land; =nmpat pgsgi.
Segi is also used of a kind of scaling ladder
formed by notches cut into a long log; Ht.
Mar. Mah.
The form sagi also occurs.
sel. Eng. Sail.
s61a. I. Interval, intervening body, space
between. Tiyada berscla: continuous, unbroken; Sej. Mal., go; Sh. Bur. Pungg., i8;
Sh. Bid., i2. S. pukang: the fork, the point
where the lower limbs meet; Sh. Panj. Sg.
S. batu: a shell, pholas.
Cf. chelah, selang, splat, etc.
II. Ular tedong sela: (Kedah) the hamadryad, ophiophagus claps or naia bungarus; Ht.
Mar. Mah. Better tedong sWlar.
s1latan. The South; the side on which the
Straits are, i. e., the South, from the Malay
Peninsula; Cr. Hist. Ind. Arch., I., 311.
Jauh ka-selatan: far to the South; Ht. Gul.
Bak., 17. Sa-belah selatan: in a Southern
direction; Ht. Mar. Mah. See selat.
silUh. Arab. Arms, weapons.
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sElada. I. [Port. salada.] Salad.
II. The name of a tree, unidentified.

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slasar. A side gallery or verandah in a
house. Dudok di-selasar balai: to sit in the
side galleries of a public hall; Sej. Mal., 92.
Penoh tunpat serambi selasar: the verandahs
and side galleries were all crowded; Sh.
Peng., 14. Maka tuwan putari kgduwa pun
kaluwar-lah dudok di-selasar mahaligai mnznanti
Shah Kubdd: the two princesses came out
and sat on the verandah of the palace awaiting Shah Kubad; Ht. Sh. Kub.
Orang tuwa 1tegat selasar
Tinggi dudok daripada bcrdiri:
the old man, the lord of the verandah, who
is taller when sitting than when standing up;
a dog; Prov.
silaseh or sulasih. [Skr. tulasi.] A kind
of mint, basil, ocymumt basilicun. The word
often occurs in pantuns as a mechanical rhyme
for kaseh: e. g., J. I. A., II., 182; Ht. Sh.
Kub.; Ht. Koris; etc.
Mabok bunga selaseh: an expression signifying that a person is very drunk indeed; but it
is not clear whether it means that a person is
as drunk as though he had been eating this
mint, or whether he is so drunk as to sway
from side to side as the flower of the sweet
basil. The words occur: Ht. Gul. Bak., II;
Ht. Ind. Jaya; Ht. Jay. Lengg.; Ht. Sri
Rama; Ht. Hamz., 52; etc. The flower of
the sweet basil can also be used as a complimentary simile:
Laksamnana pergi ka-Acheh,
Anak China jadi utusan;

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sl6ad6ri. [Dutch: selderij.]

Celery.

sgladang. I. The large wild ox of the Malay
Peninsula, the "Indian bison" or gaur; bos
gaurus: Sh. Sg. Kanch., 17; Sej. Mal., II8.
S. muda: a children's game.
II. On the same elevation or floor,-of two
rooms.
s$lara. I. Fine thorns, like thistle-down, to
be found on the stems of some plants; the
shed skin of the sugar-cane.
II. A nak selara: the young of the sembilang
fish; KI., v. d. W., Pijn. In Kedah, a separate and fresh-water fish.
slarong. A path made by elephants and
rhinoceros beating their way through the
jungle; a wild-beast track.
slaroh. Always obtainable, of goods.
sW1asa. [Arab. thaldtha.] Hari selasa: the
third day of the week, Tuesday.

Tuwan laksana bunga selaseh,
Bau-nya tidak berputusan:
you, Sir, are like the sweet basil which keeps
its fragrance for ever; Ht. Ind. Jaya.
S. dandi: a common little shrub with blue
flowers, stachytaipheta indica.
S. hutan: another plant, hyptis suaveolens.
5N. ~ silasi. The sweet basil; a variant of selaseh,
q. v.
0.L sali&tin. Arab. Sultans; the plural of sultdn.
Tdju's-saldtmn: the Crown of Kings; the title
of a Malay work. Bustdnu's-saladtn: the
Garden of Kings; the title of another work.,. i~L r s61angat. A fresh-water fish (unidentified).
s61angor. The name of a State on the West
Coast of the Malay Peninsula; (Kedah) the
name of a kind of ant.
>.z sblaput. Any thin filmy or gauzy covering, if
an unnatural growth. S. mata: the film
that forms over the eye, in cataract; Ht.
Haiw. Cf. saput and selupat.

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