A Malay-English dictionary,

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LOMOS

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V.ex lomos or lumus. I. Smeared with filth;
cf. lo0mor.
1 lumang. Belumang: Smeared with wet mud,
of a buffalo fresh from its wallow. Menggeluumang: to wallow. Cf. lomor, lomos, lumak, etc.
4 lumak. Oiliness; greasiness... lumu. Moss; Ht. Perb. Jaya. Better lumnut.
luwan. The bows of a boat; Sh. Pang. Sg.
u^ Better haluwan.; lunas. The keel of a Malay boat.
A nchak pdlunas; a sacrificial offering to the
hantu tanah or earth spirits; v. anchak.
lonak. Fleshy, of stone-fruits; having lots of
flesh round the pip or stone.
Ij luwah. Spitting out food after it has been
taken into the mouth, in contradistinction to
spitting out phlegm or saliva. Masok pun
ta'-penoh, terbit-pun ta'-lLwah: if it comes into
the mouth it does not fill it; if it leaves the
mouth, no effort is needed to eject it; a thing
of inappreciable importance; Prov., J. S. A.
S., II., 143.
luweh. A variant of luwek, q. v.
\luwih. (Kedah.) Furthest from the goal;
furthest from the target or bull's-eye; last, in
a race. Also luwi.
lohut. Rotten through and through; falling
to pieces.
\ lohor. Noon; a colloquial variant of the
Arabic.JA'
Bunga kembangb lohor: a flower (unidentified).;;, J luhak. A variant of luwak, q. v.
\ luwi or lui. See luwih.
loya. I. Squeamish; having aslight desire to
iqj vomit (maka dengan loya-nya datang hiedaldk
muntah rasa-nya Ht. Koris).
II. (Kedah.) An octopus..,o\ loyut or luyut. Meloyut: to bend, of branches
under the weight of fruit.
J. loyar. I. Eng. A lawyer. L. burok: a
hedge lawyer; a pettifogger who works up
cases. L. keledek: a cheap (qualified) lawyer;
a mal ready to take up disreputable cases for
a small fee. Also layar.
II. Pinang loyar: a "Penang lawyer;" a
plant out of which heavy cudgels are made; a
cudgel so made.

loyang. I. Bell-nmetal.
II. A large uncovered tray of lacquered
wood.
III. Han.tu loyang: a name for the tiger
spirit (hantu beliyan).

LETER
t3 loyong. Meloyong: to totter; to walk with
tottering gait, as a drunken man.
ji_ loyak. Soft, of rice that is overboiled.
J luyu. Mata lzyu: heavy or drooping eyelids
(in a sleepy man).
A) lonyah or lunyah. To be trodden flat, of
earth; to be trodden down into a soft pulp, as
wet soil on which buffaloes are turned loose;
a rough system of preparing the soil for
cultivation by fencing or tying a buffalo in a
small field so as to get the ground trodden
down.
Lc~ lonyai. Trodden into mud; slushy, of the
earth.
4 lah. I. A suffix, sometimes having a preterite
signification (cf. telah), and sometimes a quasidemonstrative meaning. Pergi-lah iya: he
went. Orang itu-lah yang pergi: that was the
man who went; it was he who went.
II. A familiar abbreviation of the (Arabic)
name 'A bdu'llah.
W lai. A numeral coefficient used with words
which are the names of tenuous objects such
as sheets of paper, blades of grass, etc. See
khlai.
\ lebar. Width, breadth. Kaki-nya lebar: his
foot was broad; Ht. Abd., 328. Lebar-nya
tanah itu ada-lah kira-kira tiga empat puloh
depa: the width of that piece of ground was
some thirty or forty fathoms; Ht. Abd., I53.
Cf. luwas, which has the idea of spacious
breadth (as in the English: "broad" lands);
while lebar is measured or relative breadth.
e lebam. A fish (unidentified)..2j liyat. Tough, leathery, lithe. Tanah 1.: clay.
Lemah liyat kayu akar: the tough flexibility of
a liana (which can be bent easily but not
easily broken); a man over whom it is easy to
win a momentary advantage but who is never
decisively beaten; Prov. Bangsa balor liyat:
a race of slippery customers; a worthless idle
race; Prov.
II. Liyat-liyut: twisting about; wriggling
and writhing, as a snake.

liyut. I. Lithe, leathery, tough though
flexible. Liyat-liyitt: twisting yet not breaking;
supple.
II. Meliyut: to drag on, of an illness.
i.J leter. Babbling; chatter; jabber. Beleter or
berleter: to chatter. Tiyada-lah berhenti mulutnya daripada berleter: his mouth would never
cease from chattering; Sh. Sing. Terb., 17.

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