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NEK

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NANTI

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j nek. Grandmother, grandfather; = nenek,
q. v.
i nuktah. Arab. A diacritical mark; a vowelpoint; a dot. Saperti suwatu nuktah juga dalam
bnlat dunya ini: like a dot upon the earth's
circumference; Ht. Abd., 273. Bersalahan
nuktah-nya sehaja karena dalam surat melayu
tiyada demlikiyan banyak nuuktah-nya: only
wrong in the diacritical marks, for in writing
Malay diacritical points are infrequently used;
Ht. Abd., 137.
nek. A variant of nek and nenek.
K' nikah. Arab. Wedding; marriage ceremony.
Masaml bagai nikdh ta'-suka: sulky as the
parties to a forced marriage; Prov., J. S. A. S.,
II., I59. Khutbah n.: the marriage formula;
Sej. Mal., 8. Wakil n.: the parent or guardian
of the bride; Ht. Md. Hanaf., 57. Nikdhkan:
to give in marriage; to cause to be married;
Ht. Abd., 416. Menikdahkan: id.; Ht. Abd.,
408; Ht. Best.; Muj., 33. Brnikadh: to marry;
to be wedded to. Bernikdh maharaja bumi: to
marry the prince of the earth; to die and be
buried; Prov.
) n.kara. A kettledrum. Usually negara, q. v.

*a; nilayan, nalayan or nilayan. [Tam.;
from Skr. narayana.] A fisherman. Hamba ini
sa-orang nelayan berjuwal ikan: I am a poor
fisherman and sell fish; Sej. Mal., 103.
or nambar or n6mbar. (Straits Settlements.)
Eng. Number, in expressions such as "number
5," "number 20." N. satu: "number one,"
A. I.; excellent.
C nimbang. Ikan nimbang: a fish (unidentified);
Kam. Kech., 5.
-c nambi. An ulcerating disease of the feet.
J. namchup. (Kedah.) A dish of vegetables.'
a namrfid. Arab. Nimrod; Nineveh.
nampang. Now, at once, at this very moment.
nampak. To see; to be visible. Cf. tampak.
Nampak is more common than tampak in the
colloquial of Penang but tampak is literary.
J> nampal. Marl; marly earth. Usually napal,
q. v.

nakoda. [Pers. ndkhodd.]
master. See ndkhodd.

A native ship

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namnam. A fruit tree, cynometra cauliflora..

nakir. Arab. The name of one of the two
Angels who interrogate the souls of the dead;
Sh. May., I4.

* nan. Who, which, that; a relative pronoun;
vt a poetic equivalent of yang. It is often used
to fill up a foot of a line of poetry and has
very little meaning in such cases. 2
nin. This; = inin, a poetical variant of ini.
A ku nin: I here..)~j n6gara. I. [Skr. and Jav.] City, state; a
poetical form of negri; Sh. Pr. Turk., 3; Bint.
Timor, 14 March, I895; Sh. Rej., 4.
II. [Arab. nakarah.] A kettle-drum; Sej.
Mal., 93, 95. It was one of the royal insignia.
< nugdraha. [Skr. anugriha.] Favour, kindness;
gift by a superior to an inferior; v. anugeraha.
o n6g6ri. [Skr. ndgari.] A city; a state; town
as opposed to country. Sa-buwah n.: a town;
Ht. Gul Bak., 53. Kata-nya Singapura tiyada
buleh jadi negeri: they said Singapore could
never become a town; Ht. Abd., 217.
Mtmbuka nt. or mtmbuwat it.: to found a city.
Isi t.: citizens; the inhabitants of a city.
Berkeliling it.: round the town. Hujan mas
perak, di-nlegti orang; hujan keris lembing, dinegeri sendiri: it may rain gold and silver but
it is the land of others; it may rain swords
and spears but it is our home; better poverty
at home than wealth abroad; Prov., cf. J. S.
A. S., III., 19. See also negara.
s ~j nagasari. A flower; v. S
n; nal. [Dutch: knal.] The wad of a gun;
(sometimes) the muzzle tampion.

jll

nun. See In't.
n.nalu. A misletoe; a parasitic vegetable
growth; a variant of kemendalu, bendalu,
dedalu, etc.. nanti. Awaiting; to await. In "Bazaar".r Malay the word is often used as an auxiliary
for forming the future, e.g., sehaya nanti pergi:
I shall go.
Nantikan: to await, to wait for. Menantikan:
id. Nanti-tantikan and metanzti-natikan: to
keep waiting for. Menantikan fajar: to wait
for dawn. Sehaya menantikan tuwan daripagi:
I have been waiting for you, Sir, since the
morning; Ht. Abd., 45.
I Cf. the pantun:
Buwah khlubi, asam paya,
Mari, orang, buwat namchup;
Tarsilu gtli di-hati sehaya
Bunga kembang bUrbalek kznchup.
2 E.g.:Tuwan nan lautan sudah-lah tEntu
Dapat mtnghapus dfhaga nan itu.
Ht. Gul. Bak., 76.

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