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174 Mr. Friederich supposes our Sunda word Jélěma to be a corruption, so as to suit Polynesian organs, of the word Janma which is Sanscrit also, and means- Birth, production, according to Wilson's Sanscrit Dictionary. Calcutta 1819.

Jĕlĕng, flung away, knocked away, pitched off, ass by the violence of wind, of a stream of water, or said of any object which rebounds and strikes against another. Get along! Be off!

Jélėr, name of a small fish in the rivers, 3 or 4 inches long. It has no scales but 5 cyrrhi or beards about the mouth. Cobitis Ilasseltii.

Jĕlig, an idiomatic expression of hopping or jumping. Jĕlig bai turun, he came down with a hop.

Jĕling'er, active, stirring about. Said of man or beast, who is full of energy and stirs about. In good health- well.

Jĕlot, dropping out, not as a liquid, but as any hard substance, as a tooth out of the head, a plug or nail out of a hole &c.

Jĕmjĕm. the holy well called Zĕmzĕm in the mosque at Mecca.

Jĕmblung, pot-bellied. A man with a large paunch. (Jav. idem.)

Jénari, the period just before dawn. Very early in the morning before daybreak.

Jĕnat, the late, — said of a person who is dead. Jĕnat na dulur kula, my late brother. Jĕnat na Dĕmang, the Demang (who is now dead). Jĕnnat, in Marsden Page 105 Paradise, in Arabic Jĕnnat, as gone to Paradise. (Jav. idem. Arab, جَنَّةٌ Jarnat, garden, paradise.)

Jéndral, European- a General- a Governor General.

Jĕnĕng, title, honorary designation. Name of honour. Di bérė jĕnĕng, they gave him a title. (Jav. Balin. To stand in honour, to govern. Fr.)

Jĕngkang, to set the legs astride or apart. To open the legs. (Jav. To be in danger to fall hindwards.)

Jéngkol, name of a tree and its fruit. Inga Bigamina. The fruit is a concatenation of large round beans in a black pod. The natives are very fond of it, though it is stinking stuff and is apt to give them severe fits of strangury.

Jéngkolan, suffering from strangury in consequence of eating Jéngkol.

Jepit, jammed between, nipped, pinched. Evidently derived from Apit which Crawfurd says is Sanscrit, close, side by side, pressed or squeezed between two bodies. (Jav. Mal. Batav. idem.)

Jĕpit and Jĕpitan, nippers, pincers, blacksmith's tongs.

Jĕrami, Paddy straw. The straw from which the grain has been cut off. (See Jami.)

Jĕrih, feeling hurt or sore at getting a smaller portion or allowance than other people. (Jav. Bat. Jĕrih or Jrih, is to be afraid.)

Jĕro, deep, profound. Di jĕro, within, inside. Jĕro corresponds to the Malay word Dalĕm, and implies Inner in the sense of refined or accomplished. Basa jĕro, refined or far- fetched language.