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66 Bubuai, a variety of Rattan, common in young jungle, but not fit for any use, as it soon dries and snaps. Calamus maximus.

Bubuĕuk, the round bambu circlet for the head, in native Tudungs or hats.

Bubuhan, district, departement.

Bubui, to cook by thrusting among hot ashes.

Bubuk, a small worm which eats and destroys bambus after they have been cut. They eat through the tubes and cause them moulder away and be unfit for use.

Bubuk, smashed, crushed to pieces. Anything ground or pounded fine. Bubuk kopi, Coffee ground for using.

Bubulak, grazing ground, ground where the grass is short cropped.

Bubur, Pap, rice or any other grain boiled well down till it is soft and watery, and being then mixed with sugar, is so eaten. Poultice for a wound.

Buburak, to chace out of any place, out of a field or forest; to drive impetuously before one. To hunt wild animals with dogs.

Buburuh, to take wages to do any work; to work for wages. Buburuh nyatu, di upah béas, taking pay for eating, he is still rewarded with rice: a Sunda proverb, for doing every thing to the best advantage.

Bubut, to turn wood or metal on a lathe. Tukang bubut, a Turner.

Bubutut, to go out in night time to take fish; the fish so caught is immediately broiled and eaten by the river side.

Bubuwahan, fruits of various kinds. Fruits collectively. (See bubuahan).

Buchak, muddy, dirty, mud sticking to the feet. (Batavian Malay béchek).

Buda, Buddha; a name still retained by the Sunda people without any precise meaning, since they have become Mohamedans. They however still talk of Alam Buda, Buddhist times, as of an almost fabulous time, to which no definite meaning can attach. As a remnant of their old faith they still retain the Buddhist names for the days of the week, where Buda represents Wednesday, as in India. It is not, however, every man who can enumerate these days of the week; only some of the more knowing. See Dité. Buda, C. 475, the planet Mercury. It may be useful to copy over here what Clough gives at Page 475. Budha from Budha to know; the name of the founder of Buddhism, the religion which is professed by the Singhalese part of the population of Ceylon, the Burman empire, and several other nations of the East; a sage, a wise or learned man; a philosopher; any eminent or deified teacher. Great confusion has taken place among Sanscrit writers and the Europeans who have followed them, by confounding Buddha which is a generic name for a wise man, a philosopher, with Buddha (Gautama) the son of Suddhodana, and the founder of the religion which goes by his name.