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Rh young women use this plant medicinally, it relaxes the female organs, and is used before marriage.

Lumuis, grown up as an animal; coming to maturity, and the hair of the skin getting smooth and shining.

Lumur, a drinking glass, a tumbler. (From the Dutch Roemmer).

Lumur, occurs in the expression Chukup lumur, to hush up an unpleasant business.

Lumut, short moss or excrescences growing on wet stones, when long it is called Lukut. (Jav. Mal. idem).

Lumut, the oily sliminess or slippery matter on fresh caught fish. (The same as the preceding).

Lunchat, to jump, to take a spring. (Cf. Lumpat).

Lunglum, to sit on eggs like a hen, to brood eggs.

Lungsar, stretched out at full length when lying down.

Lungsur, to start on a journey, as a great man with many attendants.

Luntak, cleared off as a debt; discharged- paid off.

Luntur, to discharge colour like a piece of bad prints: loss of colour; washed out.

Luput, in vain, no use trying. Not getting what we try for; to fail; to miss.

Lurah, a head man, a chief over several villages, or a small district. Ngrurah implies anything that casts a a shade- Palindungan, an umbrella; and also the vault of heaven. Ngrurah, Angrurah, and Anglurah, are on Java Lurah, a chief of the 4th. class. Friederich on Bali: Batavian Transactions Vol. 23 Page 31.

Luri, a beautiful, red, middle sized parrot brought from the Moluccos. (Another name used at Batavia is Nori). Lurung, a path, a lane, an avenue; a street. (Jav. Mal. idem).

Luse, hungry, faint from want of food. (Cf. Lěsu).

Lusean, the warp or threads lengthwise in a web of cloth.

Lutung, the black monkey, Scmnopithecus Maurus.

Lutung Kasarung, a character in the history o Pajajaran. See Kasarung.

Luwěr, muddy, opaque with dirt; said especially of muddy water.

Luwěr-léor, to wriggle as a snake moving along the ground.

Luwuk, a place, a spot of ground. Nyambut sawah dua luwuk, to work sawahs in two places. Luwuk na hadé gěusan imah, the spot is good for building a house on. Luwuk iyo ulah di kěbonan, do not make gardens in this place.  Ma, mother, mamma. Amma, C. 44, a mother. Amama, C. Vol. 2. Page 372 mother.

Ma, an expletive particle which has its force in composition, but admits of no definite translation. Imah na ma hadé, as to his house, it is good. It will often answer to the English expression- as far as, as to. Sia ma tilok bisa bogah urusan, as for you, you can never come right. Kalakuan nana éta ma to měunang di wada, as far as his conduct is concerned, you cannot find fault with it. Ma is also a constructive particle not only in Sunda but in most of the Polynesian languages, and is an inseparable