small coins with a square hole in the middle (8 ‘cash’ = 1 cent); often threaded on strings, to a definite amount (100 or 1,000), but never quite the full total.
bolongin pass have a hole made in it (molong trans).
bolu 1 n (Raf) lock (on a door).
bolu 2 (=ba-hulu) adv above, higher.
bom (=hebom) n bomb (ngebom trans); bom hatom atom bomb.
boma, bomin pass be bombed.
boma n painted or carved representation of a raksasa or a bear.
bon 1 n bunch; federation; society (ngebon trans).
bonang pass be asked to help a fellow member of a society.
bonbonan n federation, being federated.
bon 2 n the smell (of); bon bungané the smell of the flowers.
bon 3 n bond, bill, cheque, a charge account (ngebon trans) (D bond).
bonan n things bought on credit.
bonang pass be bought and written into one’s account.
bonin pass be bought and paid for later.
bonar n a disease of the eyes.
boncoh 1 (=boncos) intrans travel quickly without looking about.
boncoh 2 (=boncuh) adj hasty, rash; intrans run fast, run at sth.
boncol n boil, festering wound, bump on the forehead.
gidat maboncol a forehead projecting on both sides.
boncos (=boncoh) intrans walk quickly without looking about.
bondol n a species of bird like the white-headed sparrow.
boni n a species of small sour fruit, growing in clusters; the tree on which this fruit grows.
bonjo (=bénjo) adj awry, askew.
bonjor n a joint of a very thick bamboo used for storing water in houses, principally for extinguishing fires; a big water pot.
bontang n a maize-cob stripped of corn.
bontok L adj short and thick, stocky (=buntek, bawak) (cendek H); intrans (montokang trans) be short.
bontokang, bontokin pass be shortened, abbreviated.
bontot (=babontot) n a dish made from meat, wrapped in the sheath of betel nuts and tied at both ends.
bongbong intrans fight gamecocks unofficially, to test their powers.
bongbongang, bongbongin pass be tested in fighting.
bongés intrans be broken and lost.
bongésang pass be caused to be broken and lost.
bongésin pass be broken and lost by someone.
bonggan n pride; adj proud.
bongkah (=bungkah) intrans open, be opened.
bongkak 1 (=blongkakan) adj proud.
bongkak 2 n part of a coconut shell used as a vessel.
bongkal n a weight used in weighing gold.
bongkang 1 n ant hill.
bongkang 2 intrans (mongkang trans) make a big hole in sth.
bongkangang, bongkangin pass have a big hole made in it.
bongkangbongkéng adj (fruit) damaged by birds.
bongkar 1 intrans (Raf) heave, lift.
bongkar 2 intrans break into sth, demolish, uncover (mongkar trans).
bongkaran n sth broken into, broken open, demolished.
bongkarang pass be broken into.
bongkarin pass be tried to be broken into.
bongkek 1 n a large tumor, boil.
bongkek 2 (=bongkar) intrans be broken into.
bongkéng 1 adj hard.
bongkéng 2 n a large wound.
bongkling (=bungkling) n in Pan Bongkling (or Ketut Bungkling), the name of the hero of a popular poem which makes fun of the ceremonies of cremation and of the padandas’ explanation of their meaning.
bongkol n stem, trunk of a tree; the lowest part of sth; the rearguard of an army; the foundation, origin, or cause of sth; bongkol humah the foundation of a house.
bongkos intrans (mongkos, mungkusin trans) wrap (in a cloth); n loincloth, wrapping (=bungkus, hungkus); bongkos nangka a style of wearing the head cloth which leaves none of the hair visible.
bongkosa pass (it) was wrapped.
bongkot 1 n young shoots of the galingale (=kecicang, a tuberous plant).
bongkot 2 n a piece of wood with many knots in it, making it hard to split.
bongkotan n a species of large fish.
bongoh 1 n an evil-smelling disease of the nose.
bongoh 2 intrans speak through the nose.
bongok intrans the feeling of having lost something.
bongol adj deaf; n deafness (nénten mireng H ‘not hear’).
bongolang pass be made deaf, deafened.
bongolbongolan adj somewhat deaf.
bongolbongolanga hibané ‘(he) is made rather deaf by himself’ =he is not as deaf as he pretends to be.
bonyo (=bonyoh) adj quaking, quivering, especially of flesh; putrid, bad.
bonyok intrans be soft and sticky (ground).
bor (=hebor) n drill, borer (D boor); intrans (ngebor trans) drill, bore holes.
borang, borin pass be tried to be bored.
bora (=boro) in sabab bora n a tray woven of palm leaves, which may also be used as a lid or cover.
borang adj quite blind, having cataracts.
borbor (=bobor) intrans (morbor trans) burn.
borboranga pass was burned by someone.
boréh n face powder; whitening spread on the body; a mixture formerly used by women to spread on the breasts.
boréhang pass be powdered.
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