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28 Ayon, to compare weights, to balance one weight with another.

Ayu, handsome, pretty- in the Kawi of Java a name for the daughter or wife of a Prince. Raden ayu, a title born by native women of royal birth.

Ayuman, to mend by insertion, as a thatched roof by inserting new materials where the old had failed; or by replacing seed or plants, where they had failed in a plantation.

Ayun, to swing backwards and forwards; to rock as a cradle; to dangle a child in the arms. A ceremony performed when an infant is first taken out of the house into the open air.

Ayunan, a swinging cot for an infant.  Ba-āl, sore, painful the skin worn or rubbed off to the quick.

Bab, ar: a chapter, a division of a book. The stamp- like seal smeared with lamp- black, and put at the head of a great man's letter.

Baba, a name given to a male Chinese child born in Java, and generally called Si Baba. When applied to a grown up male Chinese born on Java, it is accented at the end and called Babah. This word Baba or Babah prefixed to a Chinaman's name shows that he was born on Java or in the Archipelago. Bāppā or Bālappā, C. 843, from Bala, younger; Appā father, a paternal uncle, father's younger brother, and is thus a term of courtesy.

Babachakan, to guttle, to eat greedily.

Babad, to cut down jungle, brush wood or grass in preparing land for cultivation; to clear away with an instrument called an Arit.

Babad, the paunch, the receptacle for food in the belly of ruminant animals. Babad may be a duplication of the first syllable of Bada C, 455, the belly, the abdomen.

Babad, chronicle, native history.

Babadéan, to guess, to solve a riddle; to play at riddles. Babadotan, name of a stinking grass called also Jukut bau ageratum conyzoides; very troublesome in cultivated land, especially in the humahs. Derived from Badot a rancid he-goat.

Babai, to fix a token or mark of possession on a tree, either to secure the neighbouring land for cultivation, or to show that the fruit on such trees is private property. The mark so fixed, which is generally long grass tied round the stem.

Babak, the bark of a tree, particularly when peeled off for any use.

Babak, the state of a horse when its back is sore and raw from the saddle- sore- backed, said of a horse.

Babak, a turn, a short spell of work. Hayang ngajaran sa babak. I will take a turn for trial. Kudu ku kula ayeunah sa babak let me now have it for a trial.

Babakalan, said of young people whoewho [sic] are courting, but not as yet engaged in marriage: derived from Bakal. which see.

Babakan, a sub-village; a village whose inhabitants have originally come off as a colony from some other village, as it were peeled off, as we might say „swarmed” when speaking of bees. 