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PETA

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PICHU

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peta. Clear, certain; = nyata. Khabar yang
p.: certain news, definite news.

'.^-' pita. [Port. fita.] Tape, ribbon, P. k~sumba:
red tape. P. manikamn: a ribbon set with
pearls; Sh. Bid., 86..:.. piyat. I. Twisted, oblique, out of line.
Memiyat: to wrench, to give a twist or curve.
II. A remote descendant; the great grandson of a grandson; v. piyut.
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C.A- piyut. A remote descendant; the grandson
of a grandson. It is possible that the
distinction sometimes drawn between piyut
and piyat is simply due to piyut-piyat being
originally a frequentative of piyut and not to
their being etymologically distinct words.
AJ petar or pitar. To train a gun on to anything, to take a true aim. Pandai pemetar:
a certain shot; a man or boy who never
misses what he shoots at.
R.A p.tor. [Port. feitor.] A " factor "; a man
in charge of a factory in the old trading-factory
days; a magisterial officer; Ht. Abd., 34.
petes. Fluent, clear, ready,-of speech. Mulutnya p.: of ready speech; Sh. Put. Ak., 30.
Terlalu sangat petes mulut-inya berkata-kata:
id.; Ht. Sh.
c 3 pitis. A very small denomination of coin
something like the Chinese cash. The coins
were sometimes made of sheet lead or of tin and
varied in value; 600o at Achin (in Marsden's
time) were equivalent to one dollar, while
Abdullah gives 3,840 tin pitis to the dollar;
Pel. Abd., 37, 26. Pitis of gold and silver are
also mentioned; Ht. Mas. Ed.
^3; petak. A square compartment, a locker, the
hold in a ship, a division of a padi-field,
a room.
petek. Ikan petek-petek: an edible marine
fish (unidentified). Layang-layang petek-petek:
a kite so called from its imaginary resemblance to this fish; it somewhat resembles
our European kites.
pitam. A rush of blood to the head causing
dizziness.
Pening kelam pusing kepala,
Angin pitam naik ka-atas:
when your head whirls and your eyes darken
with dizziness, a rush of blood is rising (to
your head)..~. pitau. Burong pitau: a bird (unidentified).
Also pintau.

y&$ pitu. Jav. Seven. Bulan kepitu: the seventh
month; Ht. Mas Ed.

pitah. Eloquent, soft-spoken, gracious. P.
iajlis: id.; Ht. Pg. Ptg.; Sh. Abd. Mk., 8.
P. kemalu-maluwan: modest in speech;
gracious but modest; Sh. Put. Ak., 5.
pijat. A biting louse, a bug, a flea. Alsopijatpijat. Sebab pijat mati tuma: the harmless
louse perishes because of the stinging one;
avoid bad company if you wish to avoid being
punished for what your friends do; Prov., see
s. v. tuma.
Pijat berseru di-tengah medan,
AMielemgaing tombak mieminta lawan;
Terkejut-lah singa di-dalam hutan,
Gerda lari ka-kaki awan:
the flea was shouting on the battlefield grasping his lance and asking for a foe; so the lions
were startled in the woods and the eagles fled
to the foot of the clouds;-a proverbial rhyme
ridiculing absurd pretensions.
pijar. I. A resinous substance (sandarac?)
used by gold- and copper-smiths for their work.
II. Extreme heat, the glow of extreme heat
or of fever.

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pijak. Stepping upon, setting foot upon;
treading under foot.
Memijak: to tread upon; Sh. Jur. Bud., 6.
Pemijak kaki: the sole of the foot.
pichit. Pinching, pressing between finger and
thumb. The pressure referred to does not
imply pain, but only compression or contraction.
Pichitkan: to compress, to squeeze, to contract. Di-pichitkan baginda jari permaisuri:
the king squeezed his queen's finger; Ht.
Koris. Pichitkan razki: to limit a man's food,
to shorten supplies.
Memichit: to compress, to squeeze, to pinch;
Ht. Ind. Nata; Ht. Koris; Sh. Abd. Mk., 88;
= pichitkan.
Keris pichit: a keris said to have been made
by an artificer who had the power of compressing steel between his fingers. One of these
weapons is said to be in the possession of the
Sultan of Perak. Cf. jikalau besi pun
di-pichit-nya mbnjadi lilin: if he pressed iron
between his fingers it became as wax; Ht. Sh.
Mard.

pechak.
j objects;

Crushed flat or sunken in, of roundish
flattened in one spot as a rotten fruit.

pichek. Narrow, confined, limited, compressed. Cf. pichit. Bumi ini pichek-lah pada
kanmi: the world is too narrow for us; Ht. Md.
Hanaf., I3.
pechun. Chin. The dragon-boat festival of
the Chinese.

pichu. The trigger of a gun.

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