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s6las6ma. A cold in the head;=-se'sma, q. v.
s616sai. Settlement, termination, finish,
winding up. Sudah sgelsai daripada pekerjaan
itu: when that business was finished; Ht.
Abd., 333.
Sa-telah selesai daripada aku bMlajar mengaji
Kurdn: when I had finished my study of the
Koran; Ht. Abd., 52.
Selesaikan: to settle, to wind up, to put an
end to. Selesaikan pekerjaan itu jangan lagi
bertanggoh-tanggoh: settle that business, do
not go on postponing it; Ht. Abd., 256.

IV. Eng. Papan seling: (Province Wellesley) a ceiling.
-S s61ong. A ngin selong bubu: an eddy, a whirlwind; better angin selembubu.;L s6langka. Tulang selangka: the collar bone.
Kena s.: to be put to death by the keris: to
be executed in the manner known by the
term salang.

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salasilah or silasila. [Arab.
Pedigree, genealogy; see silsilat.

silsilat.]

s~longkar or silungkar. I. Menyelongkar:
to search a man's belongings for anything,
e.g., for stolen property; to turn everything
upside down in searching; Ht. Best.
II. Akar selongkar: a climber (unidentified).

ul sultun. Arab. Sovereign, Sultan, Emperor;
(properly) an independent sovereign recognizing no suzerain or paramount power; a title
assumed by several native princes and recognized by Great Britain without regard to its
meaning.
Wj\.L sultinl. Arab. Appertaining to a Sultan;
imperial. Raja s.: an imperial prince; Sh.
Bid., 3. Rayat s.: subjects of the (Turkish)
empire; Sh. Pr. Turki, Io.
4A sultenat. Arab. Sultanate, sovereignty,
empire.

s~longkang or s6lungkang.
falsified (of metals); bad, of coin.

Debased,

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sWlang. I. Placed at intervals; placed in
alternation; having one between; an interval,
an interstice; in the interim. Selang tiga
empat bulan lagi datang-lah pula surat-surat:
after an interval of three or four months,
more letters arrived; Ht. Abd., 347. Selang
sa-pinti: every second door. Intan di-selang
dengan podi: diamonds alternating with small
gems; Ht. Sh. Kub.
Selang-seli: pointing alternately in one direction and in the other; e. g., as weapons
arranged so that the point of one is just
above the hilt of the next, and vice versa.
Selangi: to alternate, to place in alternate
places; Sh. Bid., 6.
Berselang: alternating, at intervals. Tidak
berselang: without a break; Sh. Panj. Sg.,
Sh. Sri Ben., 47. Berselang-sflang hari: every
alternate day or every second day; Ht.
Abd., I68.
Cf. sfla, chelah, selat, etc..-~i s.lap. Unconscious; loss of sensation;
insensible. This insensibility is attributed by
Malays to the influence of evil spirits. Also
selip.
L s6lip. (Penang.) A variant of selit, q. v.
(3' s6lup. I. See selap.
II. Eng. Sloop; Ht. Abd., 226.
\AL selopa. A small receptacle for sireh or
tobacco; Sh. Pant. Shl., io; Sh. Kumb.
Chumb., 8. This receptacle is of metal. In
Kedah, the whole set of sireh requisites would
be called bekas pinang, the little metal boxes
making up the set would be each known as
selepa. The form chelepa also occurs.
s16pat. Smeared, daubed with matter or
paint; stuck together, of the eyelids, by
coagulated matter.
UL sb61pong. Berselepong: filthy, dirty, daubed
with dirt. Cf. selepat.;L s6lak. I. The bolt fastening of a door; the
stick holding the tajok in position in a boat;
any sort of cross-bar holding two bodies apart.
Cf. sela, selat, selang, etc.
II. Insatiable; KI., v. d. W., Pijn.
jL s61ok. Groping after something unseen, e. g.,
putting the hand into the pocket in search of
money; Pel. Abd., I06. Alang-alang menyelok pekasant biyar sampai ka-pangkal lengan:
when you are groping with your hand into
the fish-tub, you may as well thrust the arm
in to the elbow; you may as well be hanged
for a sheep as for a lamb; Prov., J. S. A. S.,
III., 41.

II. Selangkan: although, even though, even
when, Ht. Koris, Ht. Ind. Jaya;= sedangkan,
which is the commoner form.
~L sling. I. Jav. Glazed earthenware, porcelain.
II. [Eng. shilling.] A twenty-cent piece
(in Kedah).
III. Eng. A sling used in loading cargo.

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