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Rh Sĕuri, to laugh, to smile. Sĕuri bai jélĕma na, the man laughed.

Sĕusĕuh, to wash, especially as clothes. To clean by washing. Jamang sia kudu di sĕusĕuh, you must wash your jacket.

Sĕusĕup, to sup up. To drink as an animal directly with the head and mouth. Said also of a man, when he puts his head down to drink from the water, as it naturally lies in a well or river.

Sĕusĕupan, a place to sup at, a drink-hole. All throughout the country are found Sĕusĕupans or drink-holes, where animals greedily drink, supposed from the water containing some saline matter or gas, but such taste is often imperceptible to man.

Sĕusĕurian, smiling, grinning, laughing. See Sĕuri.

Sĕusĕut, with difficulty, attended with trouble. Barely managed. Sĕusĕut mĕunang, obtained with difficulty. It was all I could do to get it. Sĕusĕut nakér daik di ala, it was with great difficulty that I took it.

Sĕuwĕuh, child, offspring, —-a refined expression. Séngyang sĕuwĕuh, the offspring of a séngyang, or heathen god. The word occurs as name of a part of the river Chinangĕuntĕung on Jasinga. Suwa, C. 755, from Sukha, joy, enjoyment; the young of any animal. Su, C. 742, increase, prosperity. Su, C. 768, voce Soma, to bear young.

Séwa, hire, rent. Séwa, C. 764, to serve. Séwā, C. 764, service, servitude; worship, homage.

Séwakĕn, to let out on hire, to rent out.

Séwang, each, individually. Siji séwang, one each. Sahĕutik séwang, every one a little.

Séwot, enraged, in a passion. Making a strenuous effort to do anything.

Séwu, a thousand, the same as Sarébu. Séwu is probably derived from Sa, Saha, with, by means of. Ewuh, confounded, confused, and would thus mean a confusion, from the immensity of the number to an ignorant people trying to form an idea of numbers. Gunung Séwu, the Thousand mountains, a long ridge of hills running north and south on the Bolang estate in the assistant residency of Buitenzorg. In counting Chinese cash Séwu expresses a value of forty Dutch doits. See Samas, Salawé.

wikt:séwuh|Séwuh]] or Sa-éwuh, overcome with confusion. Embarrassed.

Shéch, Arabic, a title assumed by most Arabs in Java; a sheik, a leader. MARSDEN in voce Shekh or Sheikh, page 200, gives an elderly and respectable man; an Arabian chief whose influence arises from age and experience.

Si, a particle prefixed to proper names, or to a name by which some one is distinguished. It is used as a denomination for a person of low degree, or rather of no rank at all, and may thus not improbably be the short way of expressing the following word Sia, thou, as used towards an inferior, or towards a child. Thus we have Si Jaman, Si Hamat, Si Sariman for ordinary villagers. It is also put before almost any word either substantive or adjective, by which it is wished to denote some quality of a person as Si goblok, the stupid fellow, Si Jangkung, the tall fellow, Si Kuda, the horse chap, perhaps from the fellow having stolen a horse, Si Endog, the eggchap,