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PULANG

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p pulang. Return to the original starting-post;
restoration to the first owner. Tiyada di-lepas
pulang: he was not allowed to go home (from
school); Ht Abd., 29. Panyakit-ku itu-pun
pulang-lah saperti sadiya kala: my disease came
back as severely as before; I had a relapse.
Berjalan pulang: to return; to go back.
Pulangkan and mnmulangkan:to return (transitive); to restore; to give back. Di-pulangkanlah uleh bapa-ku akan segala perkakas-nya dan
peti-peti tulis-nya kapada-ku: my father gave
me back his appliances and writing-desks; Ht.
Abd., 46.
<,PO polak. Polak-palek: (Kedah) equivocation,
inconsistency; = bolak-balek.
jv polok. Swallowing a huge mouthful, taking
a big bite at anything, carrying off the lion's
share, greedy behaviour. Bukan pulut hang
nak polok: (Kedah) I am not soft rice which
you can swallow at a gulp; I am not so easily
triumphed over as to give in to you.
Makanan sadikit banyak di-polok,
Hudoh budi perangai-ntya burok:
there is little food, but he insists on taking
much; his character is ugly and his manners
are coarse.
G3j pulak. Again, also, likewise; a variant ofpula,
q.v.;j pulik. Equally strong, evenly matched; KI.,
Pijn., v. d. XV.

JA., puleh. Return, revival, renewal, reaction.
Badan-nya puleh: his body returned to its
original condition; he got well again; Sh. Lail.
Mejn., 13. Pulang p.: to be restored to its
original condition; Ht. Raj. Don., 57.
Simpul p.: a fastening such as that of a shoelace which becomes undone without difficulty;
Sh. Pant. Shl., 4.
Pulehkan: to bring back, to restore; Ht. Koris,
Ht. Pg. Ptg. MAemulehkan: id. Mengamok
mtetmlehkan rayat-nya undor itu: he charged
furiously, leading back his fleeing soldiers to
the fight; Ht. Ind. Meng.
L'j pulai. A large tree, alstonia scholaris; Ht.
Raj. Don., 51.
P. pipit; elceocarpus stipularis.
~9 pomnang. The name of a wood (unidentified);
J. S. A. S., VIII., 131.
O.j pun. An inseparable particle suffixed to
Malay words which it tends to emphasize.
Itu-pun: that also. Sa-kali-ptun: yet. Adapun; furthermore there are.

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puwan. I. A royal betel-box; Ht. Sh. Kub.;
Sej. Mal., 92.
II. Enche' puwan: a title given to the wife
of a high dignitary, and even (in the Hikayat
Koris) to the queen herself (enche' puwan
permaisuri mahkota raja). Cf. ampuwan.
To' puwan: the principal wife of a Malay
dignitary.

~ J polan. [Arab dj ] Si-polan: so-and-so; =
si-anu. Si-polan itu tiy)ada menyahut: so-andso does not answer; Sh. May., 3.

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pulan. Well cooked (of rice); crisp but
neither too crisp nor soft.
Masak nasi pulan-pulan
Kasi makan raja kita:

cook the rice crisp and nice, give it to our king
to eat; Ht. Ind. Nata.
't pulun. Gathering upinfolds,-usedespecially
of gathering up the sarong so that all the folds
fall together in a bunch in front. Berpulunlulun: in folds.
9 pulau. I. An isolated patch of anything, an
island. P. percha: Sumatra. P. Singapura:
the island of Singapore. P. hutan: an isolated
patch of jungle. Hutan barpulau-pulau: jungle
in isolated patches.
Buntut pulau: the down-stream end of a
riverine island.
Very large islands such as Java are called, as a
rule, tanah not pulau.
II. Hind. Nasi pflau: a "pillau," rice
cooked in broth and mixed with raisins, meat,

j-,; punat. The core of a boil.
Pokok setul di-tepi tebing,
Buwah jatoh di-ayer tenang;
Bisul menanah di-dalam daging
Kaluwar punat berasa senang:
the boil is gathering matter in your flesh, but
when the core is extracted you will feel all
right again.
Budak p.: a worthless boy,-a term of abuse.
3~9 ponok. A fleshy hump or protuberance on
the back of the neck or on the shoulders; the
hump on an Indian ox.
j p ponu. Tam. A bridegroom.
4a9 punah. Habis-lah punah: utterly destroyed or
exhausted,-an intensitive of habis; Sh.
Lamp., 7, 25; Sh. May., I9; Sh. Jur.
Bud., 26.
Punahkan: to exhaust, to finish, to spend
(money); Sh. Ul., 23.
ljj poni. Tam. A tin spoon or ladle..d4 punai. Burong punai: the green pigeon;
osmotreron vernans.

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