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MUWAT

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MORENG,ay muwat. Loading; filling with cargo.
Muwatan: cargo. Sa-buwah perahu yang
sarat inuwatan: a vessel deep laden with
cargo; Ht. Abd., 273. Kalan tuwan mengalirkan kapal jangan di-rosakkan muwatan sehaya':
if you launch the boat do not injure the cargo
I have put into her; Sh. Peng., 5.
Muwatkan and meZmuwatkan: to load; Ht.
Abd., 129, 283, 284. Bermuwat: to be laden
with; Ht. Abd., 103.
* 4 mutu. I. Sad; sorrowful; silent in sorrow.
-7- BeBrhati mn.: with feelings of sorrow; Sh. Sg.
Kanch., 23; Sh. Jub. Mal., 6; Sh. Lamp., 28.
Jangan-lah sangat bermutu diri: do not take it
too much to heart; Ht. Koris.
II. Tam. A measure of the purity of gold,
=2 — carat. Mas sa-puloh in.: 24 carat gold;
pure gold; Ht. Gul. Bak., 40; Ht. Ind. Jaya.
III. A pearl; = nmutiya or mutiyara. Ratna
mitu mlanikamt: gems of all sorts; Ht. Gul.
Bak., 41.,. mujor. Fortunate; lucky, in gambling or
sport; good fortune; Kam. Kech., I5; Sh.
Kamp. Boy., 6; Ht. Gul. Bak., 75, 77.
KKemnujoran: luck: good fortune; Ht. Gul.
Bak., 117, 142; Ht. Best. Mujor is used in
contradistinction to ialaang, perverse luck; cf.
bujor.
maujfid. Arab. Existence; life. Ini do'd
hendak imaujuidkan ra'sa sudah kita makan: this
prayer is used for giving life to the quicksilver
which we consume (for magical purposes);
Muj., 67.
muda. Young, unripe; light, of colour;
impure, of metal. Anak muda-muda: the
rising generation; Ht. Abd., 47. Rajah m.:
the heir-apparent in a Malay state; the
highest official next to the actual ruler; Ht.
Abd., i. Pak in.: father's or mother's
younger brother. Mak t.: mother's younger
sister. Merah m.: light red. Mas im.: gold
containing 20 to 40 per cent. of alloy. Toleh
tenggala nm.: 7 or 8 a.m.
Anak kuda makan di-padang
Buwah dalima di-dalam-nya puwan;
Banyak-lah inuda sudah di-pandang
Di-miana satla bagai-mu tuiwan:
I have seen many youths but where can I
find one as fair as my lord; Sh. B. A. M., 4.
modar. Mati itodar: to die choked; to die a.) violent death;-in expressions imprecating a

violent death.
&-:y mudek. Up-river; travelling up-stream.
Mudek ka-Janbi: to travel up-river to Jambi;
Cr. Gr., 83. Cf. udi, mudi, etc.

AJ^) modal. Tam. Capital for working a business;
capital, in its economic sense and not as mere
wealth. Mlakan nm.: to live on one's capital
(owing to slackness of business); Ht. Abd.,
216. Menaroh in.: to invest money in a
business; Ht. Ind. Meng. M. bWlajar: the
cost of an education (viewed as a sort of
investment); Ht. Kal. Dam., 369.
A.y modin. [Arab. j.] A circumciser (in the
Malay Peninsula); Ht. Raj. Don., 48; a
muezzin (elsewhere). The muezzin or caller
to prayer is called bildl in British Malaya.
mudah. Easy, light, trivial. Tiyada-lah
'* perchaya yang bileh di-pechahkan kota itit
dengan imudah-nva: they did not believe that
the fort could be easily destroyed; Ht. Abd.,
55. Nesch1aa di-mutdah Allah aka ni ati-nya:
God will make his death an easy one; Muj.,
12.
iMudah-mudahan: perhaps; possibly; would
that. Aludahl-mudahan kalait buleh sigera iya
mati: may he soon die; Ht. Abd., 22. Miudahtmudahan di-beri Illah akandiya Shurga tempat
kediyamnan-nya: may it come about that God
gives her Heaven as her dwelling-place; Ht.
Abd., i6.
lMudahkan: to render easy, painless or light;
Muj., 40. iintmudahkan: id.; Muj., I2, 76.
KInttdahan: ease; facility; being easy.
Peirmudah: to treat as light or unimportant;
to despise or depreciate. Tidak.-lalt buleh dibuwat permnudah: it is not to be treated lightly;
Sh. Tab. Mimp., i. Hati-klu jangan kanmu
pcrntudahi: do not scorn my heart; do not
think it is easily won; Sh. Bid., 112.
mudi. The rear or stern; the rudder; cf. udi,
- ntudek, etc. Jut-ru mn.: the steersman in a Malay
vessel; Pel. Abd., 9; J. S. A. S., III., 64.
Kcmindi: a rudder. K. sepaik: a native
rudder. K. chawat: a single rudder on
European lines. Ketam k.: a cross-bar with
two lioles in it used with the k. sepak.
Kcmudiyau: behind, after, afterwards.
j. muwadzdzin. Arab. A muezzin, a caller to
prayer at a mosque; Sh. Ibl., 5. The common
corrupted form of this word (modit) is, however,
used of a circumciser.
mura. Ular miura: (Riau, Johor) a very
-)- venomous snake; lachiesis putrptreo-maculatus;
cf. boran..)p, murd. Pers. The myrtle.
muris. A kind of cloth (unidentified.)
t.L)y

' morang. [Port. nurao.] The match or
L).P~ match-cord of a cannon; Ht. Abd., 64.
I moreng. Choreng-moreng: streaked in all
directions, vertically and otherwise; Ht. Abd.,
24; v. choreng.

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