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A DICTIONARY SUNDANESE

Kadancha, a wood pigeon. A large wild pigeon in old forests which gives a loud and lugubrious cry or cov.

Kadang-kadang, sometimes, at times.

Kadariyo, the plural of Kadiyo, and is thus- come hither all of you-come here collectively.

Kadatangan, to have come to us or to me. Kadatangan sémah, a stranger is come to me; that is I have got a stranger in the house. Kadatangan untung, to have got prosperity.

Kadaton, a Palace, the residence of a Datu or Rata.

Kadék, to cut or hack with a sharp instrument, as with a sword or chopper.

Kadéngi, heard. To kadéngi, I do not hear it I did not hear it Kadéngi ka jauh, heard a long way off.

Kaděngkék, troubled, in difficulties.

Kaděngkěn, to lay down flat, to prostrate; to lay anything down on the ground.

Kaděpér, a fruit resembling a mango.

Kadijah, the first wife of Mohamet; she was a widow when he married her, and set him up in the world. She died three days after Abu Taleb, aged 65 years, and was Mohammeds only wife till her death.

Kading, 'tis true; Yes even so; now that Jthink of it. Used as if calling any circumstance to memory. Ho hading sia geus mayar, oh, now that think of it, you have paid. Běněr kading, now that Jthink of it, it is right.

Kadiniyo, to, on or at that very spot: there, with emphasis.

Kadipatén, the place or dwelling where an Adipati lives.

Kadiyo, hither, to this place, the usual expression for our — Come here!

Kadogan, a native stable for a horse; generally a single separate stall, made of open barwork with a roof, into which the horse is turned in loose and baned in.

Kadongdong, name of a tree, Paupartia Dulcis or Spondias mangifera, somewhat resembling a small manggo.

Kadongdong China, a pretty shrub for the fences of garden plots. Panax Pruticosa.

Kădu, an inland residency in Java, in which stand the magnificent ancient ruined temples of Boro Bodur. Both Marsden and Crawfurd give Kadu as Sanscrit implying the Dragon's tail, one of the nodes of the moon. Kadu is also the short for Kaduwa, C. 101. a sword, a sabre, and may have had some allusion to the kshattriyas or military caste settled here, and at no great distance from the abode of the holy men in Bagalén, and among the Prahu mountains.[1]

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  1. The Dragon's tail is called Ketu in Sanscrit. Corruptions as from Kêtu into Kădu cannot be admitted in Javanese without a great deal of analogous cases. The only word to be brought forward in favour of Marsden and Crawfurd is Kuda, derived by Humboldt and others from