Dangka I have further to add, that It appears in Javanese in the form Dangka (Dongko) and means according to Gericke Page 544 ,,the abode or dwelling of a Buta; a common miserable house, Hadadangka, to have an abode (of a Buta); to live in a bad house”.
Dantan, a female buffaloe which has not yet had a calf.
Danu, a lake , a large swampy lake in Bantam north from the Gunung Karang. (See the following Jay. ranu).
Danu, Prosperous, abundant. Tahun danu, an abundant year. (Danu, Skr. a donor, a giver. The lakes or tanks (in India) might certainly be considered as donors of the means of existence. Fr.)
Dapit, to fasten anything together by tying them between two sticks , slips of bambus so used , called in Malay Japit.
Daptar, ar: a register, an inventory, a written list of things. (See daftar).
Dapur, a kitchen, a cooking place, a fire place for cooking. An oven. A stool or bush, as of Bambus, Sugar cane or similar plants.
Dar, ar: mansion, abode. Only heard in the religious expression Dar-a1-Salam, the mansion of bliss, of peace.
Dara, a young woman who has just got her first child. Dara C. 266, a wife. See Dadara. (38).
Dara, a tame pigeon, columba, rarely used ; the ordinary word is Japati which see. Manuk Dara or wife bird no doubt alludes to the pigeon let fly by the wife who commits herself to the flames on the death of her husband, as is still the case in Bali. (Japati = Jagapati, victorious.)
Darajat, to obtain an encrease of title, rank or the like. To get riches, to obtain prosperity. Daradjat Marsden 131 is Arabic and means steps of a stair case, or ladder; a degree of honour; rank.
Darangdan, Ficus Heteropleura, one of the numerous varieties of wild figs.
Darapon, at random, any how, as long as you can get it; without selection, the first that comes. Darat, land, in contradistinction to water, dryland, the shore. Dara, C. 258 the Earth. May be derived from Addara, C. 23, the edge, border, margin; and Rata, C. 581. a country, a district, and be thus the margin land. (Dharat, participle of dhri with ri vocalis; from the same root is dhara, which means also the earth. Fr.)
Dardur, the idiomatic expression of loud and successive claps, as of thunder, or the frequent discharge of cannon. Any other loud noise which is frequently repeated at short intervals. Violent disputing between parties attended with noise.
(38) Dárá and Dáráh, in the plural form of the masculine gender means a wife; Dáraka, a Son; a child, an infant, or young animal (see Dádara); Dárikâ, a daughter, (also a whore). Dârakarman, marriage. Wilson.
