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kaih. (Penang.) The process of fishing out
with a piece of wood anything fallen into dirt
into which one does not like to thrust the
hand. Cf. kais.
kayoh. Paddling; the use of the paddle.
Berkayoh: to paddle (intransitive). Malu
birkayoh pirahu hanyut: while you are ashamed
to paddle the boat goes drifting down the
stream; false modesty or procrastination only
makes a difficulty worse; Prov.
Kayohkan: to paddle (transitive); Ht. Hg.
Tuw., 69.
Kimayoh, or (more commonly) pengayoh: a
paddle; Ht. Raj. Don., 8. Apa gadohkan,
pengayoh sama di-tangan perahu sama di-ayer:
why should we dispute, we have the same
paddle in hand and the same boat in the river;
our interests are identical and the worst thing
we can do is to oppose each other; Prov.
J. S. A. S., III., 2I. Awak metgambil
pengayoh, sehaya sudah sampai sa-berang: while
you are getting hold of the paddle, I have got
across the stream; a proverbial reproach to a
dawdler; see J. S. A. S., XXIV., II4.

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kibriyah. Arab. Greatness, haughtiness,
pride.
k6bas. I. (Riau, Johor.) The act of shaking
a cloth vigorously so as to shake out dust or
water from it; (Kedah) keribas.
II. Deadened, paralyzed; loss of sensation
as the result of injury or disease. Di-kebaskan
uleh ikan itu tangan-nya:his hand was paralyzed by the fish (a ray); Ht. Abd., 230.
III. Kebas-kebus: (Onom.) the sound
given out by a new stiff sarong as its wearer
bustles about a room. Also (frequentative)
gerebus-gerebas.

kabib. [Pers. and Hind., id.] Small pieces
of meat roasted on a spit; Ht. Gul. Bak., 32.
3.S kbabal. iThe young half-grown nangka
or chemptedak fruit.
do\<5 k6basi. A fish (unidentified).
p.i k6bahi. Jay. A petty village official. Kebahi
kebayan: petty village officials generally;
Ht. Sh.
S., k6baya. [Port.cabaya.] Baju kebay:a long
- outer garment worn by Malay, Eurasian and
Straits-born Chinese women; Sh. Kamp.
Boy., I3.. 5 kbayan. I. Jav. An order; a village
' * regulation; a village headman; Ht. Sh. Cf.
kebahi.
II. Nenek kebayan: a sort of old granny or
fairy godmother who plays a considerable part
in Malay romances as the somewhat lax
guardian of lovely princesses.
k6bat. Tied, wound round, enfolding (in one
fold). Cf. b~bat.
f k6bar. Shaking a stick in water to frighten
fish and drive them towards nets or fish-traps;
cf. kibar and gembor..0 kbbor. (Johor.) To clean a well by stirring
up the water and bringing the dirt to the
surface.

jt.(" k6bus. Kebas-kebus: see kebas.
J k6bek. Slightly awry, as a man's mouth when
his tongue is against his cheek. Cf. chebek
and sebek.? k6bok. I. (Kedah.) Assembly, meeting
together; gathered in a group.
II. A hollow cylinder used in making laksa
or kutu mnayang.
~. k6bal. Impenetrability of the flesh; invulnerability.
K. daging: impenetrability confined to the
flesh only, the skin remaining vulnerable.
K. katak puru: v. infra.
K. kulit nangka: invulnerability due to the
hardness of the skin, the flesh remaining
penetrable. Also k. nangka and k. katak puru.
K. minnyak: invulnerability due not to the
hardness but to the slipperiness of the skin
which causes weapons to glide off it without
doing harm.
K. tnangka: v. supra.
K. pakan: invulnerability by the use of
magical drugs or formula which cause an
opponent's weapons to miss their mark or
break to pieces before contact with the flesh
which otherwise remains vulnerable.
K. penimbul: invulnerability caused by something intercepting the blow beneath the
epidermis. K. penimbul raksa: invulnerability
caused by the subcutaneous injection of quicksilver. This mercury is believed to be attracted
instantaneously to any spot where iron or steel
enters the body and to interpose a barrier to
its further progress.
K. sanmpil: the invulnerability obtained,
according to Malay belief, by people who are
born with a complete caul if that caul is
preserved and eaten by them. The body is
believed in such cases to be exempted not only
from the possibility of injury during life but
even from decay after death.
V~ k6bil. The blinking of an absent-minded man;
the far away look and sleepy movements of the
eyes of a man who is wrapped in thought and
pays no attention to his surroundings.

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