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366 Payung, an umbrella, a parasol. Payungan, to screen with an umbrella, as a state umbrella held over a great man. To hold an umbrella over the bier on which a dead person is being carried to the grave. Payus, (difficult to translate). It indicates certain transactions between three parties, as if A owes B, and B owes C. A is ordered to play direct to C which is called Payus. If a man has two pieces of land or sawah on each side of a third bit, and the third is coveted to form one compact whole, that is also called Payus.

Péchak, one eyed; blind of one eye, Pĕchat and Pĕchatan, to loosen cattle from work, from the plough or cart. Pĕchat-sawad, literally, loosening the yoke band, viz indicating about 9 o'clock A. M. year when the cattle are released from ploughing.

Pĕchĕklik, dearth of food, famine. Musim pĕchĕklik, the season of dearth , occurs every year during the few months previous to cutting the new crop of paddy.

Pĕching, a slip of bambu, or bit of stick, with a piece of rag or bit of cotton, which is soaked in urine, tied round the end of it ; or a little hair of the human head stuck in a cleft at the top. These sticks so prepared are stuck in round about a humah or paddy plantation, under the idea that where they stand, no wild swine will pass.

Pĕchuk, a large web-footed water bird, with long neck and of black colour. Pĕchut, a whip. Pechutan, to whip, to drive by whipping. Pĕda, a small sea-fish, generally about four inches long, preserved in brine (like herring) and much carried inland. It is the Kĕmbung fish so preserved. Pédah, for the reason that, seeing that; in order to give pleasure, to make matters easy. Jalan gĕdé di hadéan aya pédah na, when the great road is made , it can easily be travelled over, it will facilitate communication. Pédah sia to bogah ayěunah sia di béré, seeing that you have not got any, I will now give you some, I will make matters easy by now giving you some. Pĕdang, a sword. The etymon of this word appears to be Dang, which, however, does not occur simply in Sunda, and perhaps means curved, bent; it is heard in the word Nyungkadang, curved like a scimetar. In the Malay of Batavia and in Javanese, Dangdang is the name of a tall cylindrical copper rice pot, called in Sunda Sé-éng, and conveys fully the meaning of something curved in circle. Pĕdati, a cart, a buffaloe cart. Pĕdĕs, pepper, common black pepper, Piper nigrum. Of a peppery taste. Pĕdĕs putih, white pepper, which is only black pepper blanched. Pĕgat, broken, as a string; snapped asunder, as a rope. Dissevered. Divorced. See pĕpĕgatan. Pégo, inarticulate in speech. Speaking indistinctly. Pĕjĕl, stiff and firm; adhesive and bad to cut; said of earth which resists the cuts of a pachul. Said of stiff clay which sticks to the pachul when worked amongst.