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^ putar. I. Rotation, motion on an axis.
Putar keimudi: to turn the wheel in steering. Putaran: a windlass; Sh. Lamp., II.
Terputar-putar: turned round and round;
revolving continually; Ht. Ind. Nata. Memutar
jagat: turning the world,-a Javanese designation forming a part of the full royal title;
Ht. Sh.
II. Akar putarwali: (Jav. bratawali) a
medicinal creeper, also known as akar saruntun.
III. Burong putar: a kind of turtle-dove
(unidentified)..-9j putus. Severance, splitting or breaking of;
(by metaphor) to settle, to put an end to.
Ayer di-checnchang tiyada putus: water does not
break in two under a cut; Prov. Tetak ayer
manakanputus: a variant of the same proverb).
Putus benang dapat di-hubong, patah arang sudah
sa-kali: a broken thread may be united by a
knot, a piece of charcoal once broken is
broken for ever; there are quarrels which can
be settled and others which make reconciliation
impossible; Prov., J. S. A. S., II., 147. P.
bichara: the settlement of a dispute; Ht. Raj.
Don., 77. P. muwafakat: to come to a
definite agreement; Ht. Raj. Don., 76. P.
razki: to exhaust one's supplies. P. makan:
id. P. asa: hopeless. P. nyawa: to die. P.
herga: to pay a price, to settle a bill.
Putuskan: to settle, to terminate, to break.
Memutuskan: id., Ht. Raj. Sul., 22. Putusi:
id. Herga-nya belumn hamba putusi: I have
not yet paid its price; Sh. Sri. Ben., 80.
Keputusan: severance, settlement, completion.
K. beya: the payment of customs dues; Ht.
Ism. Yat., 99. Yang tiyada berkeputusan:
endless, uninterrupted; Ht. Abd., 113,200;
Cr. Gr., 43.
Cf. potong and puntong.
1y potong. Cutting; cutting off; a piece so cut
off. Sa-potong tanah: a piece of land; Ht.
Abd., 236. Sa-potong kain: a strip of cloth;
Ht. Abd., 268. Di-suroh potong akan gambar
itu di-papan: he ordered the picture to be cut
in wood; Ht. Abd., I55. Di-sukai-nya perkataan rengkas di-potong-potong-nya diotog-oto ya -tengahtengah: he liked brevity of speech and cut
sentences short in the middle; Ht. Abd., 337.
Menotong: to cut, to cut down or cut off.
Cf. puntong, puting and putus.
I puting. The part of the blade which is
buried in the handle; a pointed projection of
any sort; a fag end or stump.
P. beliyong: (i) that part of a native hatchet
which is buried in the handle; (2) a whirlwind;
Sh. Tab. Mimp., 4; Ht. Sh. Mard.

P. chlpu-chetpu: the pointed foot of a mast
which is buried in the truck.
P. damar: the part of a torch which is held
in the hand and is left unconsumed.
P. susu: the nipple of the breast.

P. tenggala: the handle of a plough-share.
Parangp.: a very sharp chopper (parang).
Hikdyat parang puting: a story in which the
hero conquers a number of dragons by the
use of one of these choppers which (by
magic art) cut heads off automatically.
Suroh kerja, golok keling;
Suroh makan, parang puting:
order him to work and he is the bluntest of
tools (a golok keling); order him to eat and
he is the sharpest; Prov.
putek or putik. The fruit as it appears
immediately after the falling of the blossom.
putu. A generic name given to a number of
cakes made of pulut flour, and forced into a
wooden mould. Kuweh putu mayang: the
best known of these cakes.

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putah. A river fish (unidentified).
puteh. White, whiteness; (also) a familiar
name (tinmang-timangan) given to the sixth or
seventh child in a family. Puteh puteh udang
kepai; hitam hitam gajah: one is white but it
is the whiteness of a shrimp, the other is black
but it is the blackness of an elephant; one
is fair but it is an ugly fairness, the other is
dark but it is a comely darkness; Prov.
P. kuning: "white yellow,"-a much admired
colour for a complexion, and a term of
endearment,= " my fair one."
P. mata: being put to shame; the shamefaced
look on being "scored off"; Ht. Koris, Sh.
Lamp., 34. Putehkan mata: to put to shame;
Ht. Koris.
Puteh mata si-burong punai,
Kayu ara di-tunggu lang:
the poor green pigeon has been badly sold,
the fig-tree (he perches on) is being watched
by a hawk; Sh. Peng., 5.
P. meleseh and p. puchat: pale whiteness.
P. tulang: the whitening of bones; a
metaphor for death. Biyarputeh tulangjangan
putelh mata: " let your bones whiten rather than
your eyes "; better death than dishonour; Prov.
J. S. A. S., III., 26.
Kaylu p.: kajeput.
Orang p.: a white man; a European and
(especially) an Englishman.
Puteh-putehan: a disease of women; leucorrhcea?
Memuteh: to become white; Ht. Best.; Ht.
Raj. Don., ii. Memuteh bunga di-dalam kebun,
sa-tangkai sehaja yang menggila: the flowers
are all blossoming white in the garden, but one
flower alone has power to make me distracted
with love.
potiya. Chin. An overseer of labour.

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