A Malay-English dictionary,

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BAKUL

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BALA

bakul. A basket; a hamper. Duwa buwah b.:
two baskets. Menjunjong b.: to carry a basket
on the head; Ht. Ind. Meng. Bakul berisi
duri: a basket full of thorns; Sh. Raj. Haji.
Bakul beramin: a basket of open network.
Cf. tembakul, the name of a fish which swims
about with its head above water.

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bagau. A plant, xyris indica; a herb with
grassy leaves and yellow flowers.
bagu. A plant (gntetum gnemon? )
Bagu-bagu: a partition of a fruit; a slice or
natural sub-division of a fruit; cf. ulas.

LLA

bakam. A ruby; Kl., C. and S. Cf. nakam
and dalima.
bakau. A name applied to mangrove trees,
chiefly rhizophorece; mangrove swamps;
swampy mangrove-covered coast.
Tamnpak api di-Tanjong Tuwan
Kuwala Linggi bakau-nya rendah:
we see the light on Cape Rachado and the
low-lying mangrove swamps at the mouth
of the Linggi river. Pohun kayu b.: a mangrove tree; Sej. Mal., 1I6.
B. puteh: bruguiera caryophylloides.
Huitan b.: a mangrove swamp.
Ular b.: a very venomous snake.
bakai. Mandi 6.: (Kedah) washing in fresh
water after first washing in salt; the washing
of a dead body from the waist downwards.
bagor. I. Big; of exceptional height and
breadth; tall for his age, as a boy.
II. To scrape the sand on a river sandbank
into an enclosure with a low surrounding
embankment in which small fish are held
captive; C. and S.
bagas. Continuous, as a gale of wind.
bagus. I. Handsome, pretty, line; whether
of a man's appearance or of that of an inanimate object. Rumah b.: fine house. Kota
sa-bagus ini: so fine a fort. Bukan-nya dari
sebab bagus rupa-nya: not because his presence
was handsome; Ht. Abd., 27I.
II. Jav. A title of distinction. Also agus.
bagong. Clumsy, awkward, especially of
the build of a boat; cf. bagor and bagal.
bagok. I. A medium-sized marine fish (unidentified ).
II. The name of a monkey; v. bangkok.
bagal. I. Awkward, too tall, too big. Ayanm
6.: a fighting-cock which is too strong for
another and which is therefore not to be pitted
against it; a cock not permitted to fight
because of its known strength. Cf. bagong
and bagor.
II. The peduncle of a coco-nut; R. v. E.
bagan. A platform raised on posts; anything
of the nature of such a platform, whether a
landing-stage, or a watch-house, or a mere
scaffolding for drying fish; the framework in
the early stages of housebuilding. In Kedah
and P. W. bagan is the most common name
for a landing-place; =pangkalan, elsewhere.

)b bagai. Kind, variety, species; (better sa-bagai)
identical with, forming one species with, similar to. Permata sembilan bagai: gems of nine
varieties. Bagai chaching kepanasan: like a
scalded worm; writhing in helpless agony;
saperti chaching kepanasan. In Kedah and
Penang bagai is colloquially used where saperti
would be used in Malacca and Singapore.
Bagai-bagai: sorts, kinds, species.
Bagaikan: as if to; =bagai akan. Rasa-nya
arwad.h-ku bagaikan hilang: feeling as if consciousness was about to leave me; Ht. Abd.,
364.
Bagaitmaa: in what way, how (as an interrogative). Sa-bagaimana: in whatsoever
way, in whatever way. Pronounced bagimana.
Berbagai: in various ways. Berbagai bagai:
id. Berbagai-bagai mnzsliat: in all sorts of
ways, by all sorts of means. Tiyada berbagai
lagi: indescribable, incomparable, peerless.
Terlalu baik paras-nya tiyada bcrbagai lagi:
great and incomparable was her beauty.
Pelgbagai: sorts, kinds, species; bagai-bagai.
Sa-bagai: see above. Sa-bagaiyan: thus, so,
in this manner; Panch., 53.
Bagini and bagitu, which are sometimes given
as abbreviations of bagai isi and bagai itu, are
probably only variants of ba'-ini and ba'-itu.
~. bagi. Giving, allotment; division; see behagi.
Ikan b. b..: a fish, platycephalus tuberculatus.
bala. I. [Skr. bald.] Soldiery, an army.
Bala tentara: an army, troops considered
collectively; (pronounced bala-ttet'ra).
II. Pers. Above,-in the expression balabdd, the Persian equivalent of the Malay diatas angin; see angin.
III. [Arab. A..] Misfortune, injury. Banyak
bala bisar akan datang: many great calamities
are approaching; Ht. Jay. Lengg. Beharu
juwa terlepas daripada suwatz bala maka di-sambut pula uleh chelaka yang lain: barely had he
escaped from one calamity when he fell into the
clutches of another curse; Ht. Gul. Bak., 89.
Bala dan aniyaya: misfortune and oppression;
Ht. Abd., 12.
Bala benchana: misfortune and disaster.
Tolak bala: a sacrifice or other offering to
remove a calamity by propitiating the evil
spirits causing it. Bukan-kah tuwan puteri
raja hendak buwat tolak bala mnelpaskan daripada
bhhaya negeri: is not the king going to make
of the princess a propitiatory offering to
remove the calamities of the nation? Ht.
Best. Ayer tolak b.: sacrificial water, holy
water, water to drive away evil influence; Sh.
Jur. Bud., 43.

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