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326 Ondorosol, impatient, hasty and violent in temper.

Ong'ap, out of breath, blown, stifling, for want of fresh air. (Cf. Batav. Mang'ap opening the mouth).

Onggĕl, every, each. Onggĕl imah, on each house. Onggĕl jĕlĕma, every man.

Onggéng, to walk hobblingly, to hobble like an old man. The hobbling inclination of the body when women are sifting rice.

Onggrét, the grub of the Légé, a cockchafer called Melolontha vulgaris. The onggrét lives in the ground and is a soft white grub, with sharp red jaws. It is one to two inches long and is very destructive to young plants, the bark of the roots of which it feeds upon, and in the humahs, or upland rice plantations, it sometimes nearly destroys the whole crop by eating off the young and tender roots of the paddy.

Ongkél, to parbuckle; to move by putting a lever underneath and then lifting up and forward.

Ongkoh, separately, distinctly, individually. Ongkoh bai mĕunang, he also separately got some. Manéh na ongkoh ngala, he also individually took some.

Ongkol, the fruit stem of the plantain, when it first begins to peep out.

Onom, as for, kula onom, as for me. Sia onom mohal di béré, as for you, it is not likely that they will give you any. (Perhaps Sct. nāma, adverb, namely; certainly).

Onta, a camel. MARSDEN gives this word as Hindu. The animal is not known in the archipelago except by report of those who have made the pilgrimage to Mecca. The government of Java imported some about 1840 — 1844 but they soon die out. Otuwa C. 90, a camel. (Sct. is Ushtra, camel. In provincial dialects occurs Unth).

Onyam, name of a small shrubby tree, mostly growing in open grass lands.

Opak, a very thin cake made of rice flour, and baked crisp.

Opan, a bait, especially to take fish.

Opanan, to bait, to set a bait. To lure, to tempt.

Opas, a native police man, at least such as are always in attendance upon police authorities, the Residents &c. and have a peculiar dress. Any attendant about an office. A man to run errands and execute petty commissions. Most likely derived from the Dutch word „oppasser,“ an attendant, a person in waiting.

Opat, four. Pat indicates evenness, and is a stage in the native scale of counting, succeeding to Dua, parity, and Tolu disparity, which see. The word pat for four, is found, very extensively in the Polynesian languages. Papat is Javanese, the word pat with the inseparable prefix pa. Ampat, in Malay. Pat, alone in Achinese and Sirang. Ha is Rottinese. Fa is found at several islands of the Pacific. Afa, on Pulo Nias. Hatara, four, in Singhalese C. 785.

Opat-blas, fourteen.

Opat-puluh, forty.

Opén and Opénan, to meddle with, to molest, to trouble yourself about, to care for. Kula tilok ngopénan, I never meddle with it. Ulah di opénan, don't molest it. Opénan tĕuyn, why should you trouble yourself about it.