Aram, brushwood used for consolidating or giving substance to boggy roads, embankments, dikes, dams &c. brushwood laid down on a muddy road.
Aran, a name; as to- Aran hadé, nya hanto, as to its being good, indeed it is not (Jav. id).
Arang-arang, name of a fish in some rivers.
Arangan, name of a fish, the same as Arang-arang.
Arap, bits of string in weaving, which raise the alternate threads.
Arapat, ar: the mountain of Arafat near Mecca, where some of the ceremonies of becoming Haji take place. See Arafat.
Arapap-ěrěupěup, to stutter, not to be able to articulate clearly.
Arawah, also much called Roa, the eighth month of the Mohammedan year; otherwise also called Saban.
Ardi, mountain, occurs sometimes in the composition of proper names, and is Kawi. (Scr. adri, a mountain; herefrom are formed in Javanese ardi and redi, by transposition. Fr.)
Aré, The open country, or where there is little or only young jungle, in contradistinction to the mountainous and forest parts. Orang are, the people living in open country; this expression also sometimes implies evil spirits, demons.
Arěp, to exspect, to hope for, to look for; To di arep deui, I no longer expect it. I do not expect to see him again.
Arěs-arěsan, sweepings of rice mixed with sand and dust, picked up for use.
Areui, Jungle rope; the twining and long runners which abound in all tropical forests, much used as bands or ropes. Called in French Liane. Called in Malay Oyod, which word in Javanese means Root thus the idea of root is conveyed, when speaking of these lianes, which spread their roots above ground.
Argopuro, according to Javanese pronunciation: otherwise Argapura. The highest part of the Iyang mountains in Basuki, 9237 feet high, covered with rude terraces and traces of ancient worschip.
- Argha, C. 47. Reverence, mode of worschip.
- Arghya, C. 47. renerable, deserving worship, respectable.
- Pura, C. 409. a city, a town, a collection of houses, a house or cluster of houses walled in.
- Argha-pura, the worshipful city- or place to worship at.
- Pûra, C. 415 a piece of water, a large quantity of water.
- Argha-pāra, the worshipful water, the water deserving worship.
- At one place on the top of the Argopuro, is a sort of hollow, going down into the ground about six feet perpendicular. It is so narrow that a man can with difficulty get up and down it. On the top of the Argopuro, Mr. Zollinger found several glazed pots partly whole and partly broken. They are about two feet high and have a mouth one foot wide, but belly out below.
- Can there have been some worship of sacred water on the top of the Iyang? Tijdschrift 8 year 2e No. Feb. 1846.
