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Rh Salamat, Arabic, prosperity, welfare, safety. Safe, prosperous. In Sunda it also implies: attended with blessing, uninjured, by divine favour. Salamat datang, is a friendly way of welcoming the arrival of any one, and may be rendered: may a blessing be upon your arrival. So also Salamat jalan is a benediction at departure: may a blessing be upon your going away.

Salang, slings for carrying a heavy weight. A circle of matted liane or rope suspended to each end of a pole for the purpose of carrying anything.

Salapan, nine. Literally: one folded down. See Lěp = Salěpan. The fingers of the two hands representing Ten, one folded down and Nine remain. Salapan blas, 19. Salapan puluh, 90.

Salaparan, one of the names given to the island of Lombok, which is likewise called Sasak. Sala, C. 719, a house, a hall; a rock, a rocky mountain. Paran, C. 862, preeminence; final beatitude, Nirwana. Thus: the abode of bliss, or the mountain of final beatitude, after the great mountain called the Peak of Lombok. The Hindu worshippers who are the chiefs and governers of Lombok, descended from Bali, may have given their island this high sounding name, retaining the Polynesian position of the words Sala and Paran, and not making it Paransala, which the more orthodox Sanscrit form would require.

Salaput, as tall as a man; a mans height. Mostly used to express the depth of a hole. Liang na lěuwih salaput, the hole is more than a man's height. Gěus di kalian měunang salaput, I have dug it out to my own depth,—so deep that the top of my head is even with the top.

Salasa, Arabic, Tuesday.

Salasah, a trace or mark; trace of what we have done. Michěun salasah, to destroy the trace; to put on a wrong scent. To mislead.

Salasar, a large mat or Kajang, made of Changkwang leaves for temporary use.

Salat, Arabic, the singular of Salawat, a blessing, a prayer, a benediction.

Salat-istika, praying for rain. Prayers offered up in times of unusual drought, asking for rain. Words are evidently Arabic.

Salatiga, name of a place and district inland of Samarang. Sala means an interval, a short space between. Katiga is the dry season. The constructive Ka of which being elided, we have Sala-tiga, implying that the dry season keeps recurring at intervals, or with short spaces of wet between. The ground on the flanks of the mountain Merbabu is very sandy and droughty, so that, with short intervals of dry weather, the soil becomes quite parched up and dusty, the dry season or Katiga appearing thus frequently to return and disappear again.

Salaton, Delirium. Violent and mad with illness.

Salatri, a sudden and violent fit of illness, whereby the patient becomes senseless. Called at Batavia Chika, which according to means: the cholic; gripes.

Salawat, Arabic, prayers, the plural of Salat, a blessing, a prayer.