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SENDENG

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sendeng or sinding. Leaning or heeling
over to one side; laid against anything at an
angle, as a plate or anything similar when
laid up against the wall. Cf. serendeng.
Bersendengan: in an inclined position; lying
at an angle against, as shields resting against
a wall; Ht. Ind. Meng.
Tersendeng-sendeng: leaning over first to one
side and then to another; swaying. Tersendengsendeng bagai sepat di-bawalh mengkuwang:
swaying from side to side like the sepat fish
in the shade of the screw pine; a proverbial
simile used to ridicule affected grace of
motion; J. S. A. S., III., 27.

Jaw sendel. I. Leaning against; cf. sendeng.
Bersendel bahu: shoulder to shoulder.
II. (Kedah.) A pestle used for pounding
chillies.

J. M

UJm sondong. Stooping gait; walking with a
stoop forwards; KI., v. d. W., Pijn... sundang. A broad short sword with a fullsized handle.
S. berlok: the same with a wavy blade.
J. sindap. An eruption of large black spots
on the skin.
'J. s6ndok. A spoon, a ladle. Haruslah disakal 'akal-mu dengan sendok: your intellect
wants beating up with a spoon; Ht. Gul.
Bak., 28.
Sipit s.: a shell, patella sp.
Menyendok: to spoon up, to eat with a
spoon.
Orang Bangka menggulai babi,
Orang Siyamt mlenyendok-nya;
Yang di-sangka tidak ntejadi
Orang diyamz pula mendapat-nya:
a man of Bangka curried the pig, but it was
a Siamese who spooned it into his mouth;
the expected did not happen and the man
who stirred not was the man who got it;fortune often comes to those who do not
seek it and evades those who do; Prov., Sh.
Peng., 24.
Tersendok: spooned up. Nasi tersendok tidak
termakan: rice that enters the spoon does not
always enter the mouth; there is many a
slip 'twixt the cup and the lip; Prov., Sh.
Raj. Haji.
s6ndal. I. Fixing by filling up interstices;
making a shaky object firm by filling up the
loose joints, by mortising, etc.
II. Surreptitious theft; theft such as that
committed by pickpockets.
Sendalkan: to steal surreptitiously. Maka
titah Betara Majapahit sgndalkan aku keris Tan
Bija Sua itu: the Prince of Majapahit said:
quietly steal for me the keris of Tan Bija
Sura; Sej. Mal., 145.
Kesendalan: the act of surreptitious theft; its
victim. Kesendalan aku uleh Jawa ini: I have
been robbed by this Javanese; Sej. Mal., I46.

sondol. Lowering the head, as a bull or
wild boar about to charge.
'Iba rat laksana lembu dogol,
Ta'-buleh tandok choma di-sondol:
like a hornless bullock which cannot hurt you
but lowers its head to charge all the same;
a man of empty threats; Prov.
Menyondol: to lower the head. Ber-lari-lari
datang m1enyondol: to come charging with
lowered head; Ht. Mar. Mah.
sundal. [Skr. chandala, a degraded outcast?]
A barefaced prostitute; sunk in sexual sin;
shameless, of a woman. Hai perrepuwan
sundal bedebah tiyada tanu mialu: you shameless and accursed woman, you who know not
what modesty is; Ht. Kal. Dam., 59.
Sundal birah keladi: lascivious as though you
had been touched with the leaves of the birah
keladi (colocasia antiquorunt); itchy; Sh. Sri
Ben., 26.

J.l

S. gamit, or s. mnlggamit: a name for lovegrass or burrs.
S. malamt: the tuberose, polianthtes tuberosa;
Sh., B. A. M., 5. Also sandarmalaml; Kam.
Kech., 9.
f slndu. Afflicted, grave, depressed, sad.
Sendu laku-nya: a melancholy mien; Sh. Panj.
Sg. Sendu-sendu laku-nya: id., Ht. Mas Ed.
Menangis tersendu-sendu: to sob quietly; Ht.
Sh. Mard. Bersendu diri: to sadden oneself,
to be sad; Ht. Sh. Kub. Cf. sedu.
>i. sendochong. A freshwater fish (unidenti.
fled).
$-)&A3 s6ndudok. A common rhododendron-like
shrub, 1nelastozma polyanthum; Sh. Bur. Nuri,
29; Sh. Ik. Trub., 13; Sh. Kumb. Chumb.,
5; J. S. A. S., III., o05. Also called
sekedudok, and kedudok.
) i sindura. [Hind. sindir, from Skr.?]
Minium, red lead.
o.CU sondeh. A tree producing a good gutta;
payena leerii: J. I. A., I., 259.
cu s6ndi. [Skr. sandhi.] A muscle, sinew or
joint of the body; a joint or hinge generally.
Uleh deras tumbok-nya maka terchabut-lah sendi
bahu-nya: by the violence of his blow he
put his shoulder out of joint; Ht. Abd., 253.
Besrsendi: with a sinew, hinge, or mounting
of. Bersendikan: id. Bagai tandok bersendi
gading: like horn mounted in ivory; like a bad
picture in a gorgeous frame; Prov., J. S. A. S.,
XI., 40. Bersendikan emas: set in gold; Ht.
Ism. Yat., 118.

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