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68 serpents, who afterwards coalesced with the sect of Siwa. Bat. Trans. Friederich Vol. 23 Page 48.

Bhujanga, Clough Page 495, from Bhuja, crooked, and anga, body, that is a serpent or snake.

Bujuk, to coax, to cajole, to wheedle.

Bujur, tha same as Jubur, the anus.

Buk, the idiomatic expression of striking, either with the fist or with any implement, by shoving it against the object to be struck. Hence the word Tumbuk which see.

Buka, to open, to uncover, to expose. Open; space, breadth, what a thing opens out to. Laicang kudu di buka, the door must be opened. Rasiyah na kudu di buka, its secret must be exposed. Buka na meunang sa asta, it opens out to the breadth of a cubit.

Buka puasa, to break the fast, to cat after fasting; literally to open the fast.

Buka upih, name of a bird in Sawahs or swamps. See upih. The bird is so called, because when on the ground, it is of a dirty dark color, and hardly perceived, but on flying up shows white under its wings, which is like the opening of an upih.

Bukit, This word is properly Malay, and means a hill, not a mountain. It occurs in only two solitary instances in the Sunda districts, as applied to mountains, and these are the Bukit Tunggul and Bukit Jarian, two mountains in Bandong. Bukit Tunggul means „ Stump Hill"; it is on the boundary line between the Pamanukan Estate and SumSdang. The tradition of the ecountry says that here was felled the tree which was to form the Prahu which is supposed to still exist in the adjoining Tangkuban Prahu y which see. The Bukit Tunggul is a rather conical hill and bears a rude resemblance to the stump of a fallen tree. It is strange that these solitary instances of Bukit should occur in the interior of the Sunda districts, surrounded by otherwise purely Sunda names. Had it been on the coast, we might have imagined some ancient Malay colony settled near it. As it now is, it looks as if the Sunda people had hunted a name out of a foreign language to designate a mountain which it appeared to them anomalous to call a Gunung, with the word Tunggul jz: stump of a tree, affixed to it.

Buko, a book, derived from the Dutch work Boek, a book, and pronounced the same as the English word.

Bukti, a possession, any thing valuable which is obtained; a fall of good luck. Ngabukti, the act of coming in possession. Buktiya, C. 475, a possession, an inheritance. Sia ngabakti aing ngabukti, Do youmake offerings and I will appropriate them. (Bhukti, eating; possession, usufruct. Wilson).

Buku, a knot in a tree, a joint, articulation. The space between two joints of the hand.

Buku pare, the joints in a paddy straw. Buku leungan, the joints of the hand.

Bukur, having some tangible substance, which can be taken in the hand and examined, as distinct from air or water. Substance, contents, matter.

Bukuran, having substance, something tan ible. Omong eta bukuran, that talk conveys something tangible.