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Rh Babak-haur, a kind of centipede.

Babalanja- to do marketing, to make purchases of household commodities.

Babang, to run away, to escape, to go off without knowledge or notice.

Babantal, the ground part of a plough which carries the share. The sleeper or rest for any part of machinery, from Bantal a cushion.

Babar, cast down, destroyed, put to rout, driven away.

Babari, easy, not difficult.

Babasaran, the mulbery-tree- Morus Indica.

Babat, history, story, legend, chronicle, see Babad.

Babatok, the skull, the cranium.

Babawangan, sieves, a reedy grass growing in wet poor land. The word means resembling Bawang or onions.

Babétkěn, to fling with violence or rage, to dash.

Babi, a pig, a hog, a swine, a term of reproach for a nasty dirty fellow. Sus- Lauk babi, pig's flesh, pork.

Babi lěuwěung, the wild pig, the pig of the forests. Sus Verrucosus.

Babu, properly malay- a nurse, a woman to take care of children, in the employ of Europeans. Among the natives such a woman would be called Pangasuh.

Babuk, to beat violently with a stick, to give a thwack.

Bachack, wet and muddy. Said of ground soaked with rain.

Bachang, a springe, a cord with a noose fastened to a bent stick, in order to catch wild animals.

Bachot; an expression of surprise; oh is that it! aye indeed! who would have thought it!

Bada, a period of prayer or festival. Bada isa, the period of latest evening prayers after dark. Surud Bada, after the festival.

Badag, coarse, of large texture or grain; rough; uncomely.

Badak, the Rhinoceros. Rhinoceros Sumatrensis. Badak may be derived from Bada, C455, the belly, the abdomen, and Ek C, 85. One- This Ek in Singhalese coalesces with the word to which it relates at the end, and when such word terminates in a vowel like Bada, the é of ék is dropped, an only the k suffixed, thus Bada = Badak, which though not a current Singhalese word for a Rhinoceros, means „One Belly”, and would apply very well to an animal of which the belly forms so conspicuous a part. The Sunda people have also Ladog and Gandol for Rhinoceros. Nyampal badak, the evening star, literally the feeding time of the Rhinoceros. Cheuli badak the cactus or opuntia plant, literally Rhinoceros ears.

Badan, the body- The trunk of any animal- Crawfurd and Marsden call this word Arabic.