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A DICTIONARY SUNDANESE


= Puhun or Puhon, which in Malay means a tree. Our Sunda word with Pěm — before, and an after the word makes Pěmpuhunan, that which answers for a tree, and is thus emblematic of the future paddy stems.

Pěndak, met, encountered, jumped with.

Pěnděm, to bury in the earth, to secrete by burying. To throw down into a bole in the ground. To thrust into any place out of sight.

Pěnděng, to shut off by an enclosure, to fence off. A division in a house forming a room or rooms.

Pěnděutan, to shut up, to close, to block up. Chai na gěus di pěnděut, the water has been shut off. Pěnděutan lawang na, shut the door.

Pěnding, an ornamented plate of gold or silver, embossed with various devices, and forming the clasp of a belt or girdle worn mostly by women, round the waist, the pěnding or clasp being placed right in front.

Pěndok, a silver or gold kris sheath, made to pass over the sheath of wood.

Pěng'ék, holding the nose shut with the fingers, pinching the nose so as not to be able to smell.

Pěngging, viz Ratu Pěngging, see Andaya ning Rat.

Pěngki, a shallow wattled bambu basket, two of which are suspended, one to each end of a pole, and carried across the shoulder for the purpose of removing earth or any other objects.

Péngkolan, a bend, a turn, especially in a watercourse, or in a road.

Pěngpěk, to stop up, to shut up, as a sluicegate in a canal, or a hole in a fence etc.

Péngpélangan, the inner side of the thighs.

Pénna, a European's pen for writing; a pen made of a goose quill.

Pěnta, the same as měnta, to ask. Assumes this form after the preposition di. Di pénta to di béré, when asked for, it was not given.

Pěntang, to stretch out a fresh hide with pieces of stick in order to dry it. To cut a fresh hide in strips for making rope and hanging the same out in the sun to dry, stretched from tree to tree. To distend; to stretch out. To tie up a man who is to be flogged to a frame work, so that he cannot move.

Pěntil, small sprouts setting for fruit. Any small fruit when first forming from the flower. The nipples of a woman's breast.

Pěnyakit or Panyakit, sickness, disease. Pěnyakit bongsor, the small pox. Pěnyakit muriang, the fever.

Péot, shrivelled up, gone down as a swelling; very lean and poor; nothing but skin and bone.

Pěpanting, a kind of wasp.

Pěpantér, a small worm or grub which attacks and eats the tender leaves of growing paddy.

Pěparěm, any medicinal warm or pungent preparation rubbed on the body externally.

Pépéd, to cut and collect stray heads of paddy which have been broken or injured, and cannot be reaped with the straw to tie up in the usual way.