A Grammar of the Malayan Language: With an Introduction and Praxis...author, 1812 - 225 pages |
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Page v - Keling ; but it appears to be only a sort of Malay plural to the Arabic word ben or beni, signifying a tribe. The early adventurers from Arabia frequently make mention in their writings of the different tribes they met with to the eastward, and from them most probably the Malays have adopted the term Orang benua.
Page xli - ... unmindful of so valuable a part of that Trade: but as we may by convenient Settlements in those Southern Seas share with the Dutch, the Profits thereof; and I finding so very few English Men that have attained any tollerable Knowledge of the Malayo Tongue, so absolutely necessary to Trade in those Southern Seas, and that there is no Book of this kind published in English, to help the attaining that Language; These Considerations I say, has imboldened me to Publish the Insuing Dictionary, which...
Page xliii - A //Dictionary //of the //Malay tongue,// as spoken in the // Peninsula of Malacca,// the Islands of// Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Pulo Pinang, &c.
Page xxix - Barang-barang but, however. farther, again. then. a race or family. a little. notice, memory. anything. But it is needless to adduce further instances, as the Malay history and language itself exhibit traces sufficiently clear to direct us to the region with which the Malays had the most frequent intercourse at an early period, and from which their language seems to have received the most considerable modifications, and that is the ancient kingdom of Kalinga. Here I am again under the necessity of...
Page 128 - Pantiins the Malays often recite, in alternate contest, for several hours ; the preceding Pantun always furnishing the catch-word to that which follows, until one of the parties be silenced or vanquished, or, as the Malays express it, be dead (suda matt).
Page 30 - Marsden for an opinion which the latter has hazarded, that in the Malay language " the noun, in its simple state, without any accompanying term to limit or extend its signification, is more properly to be considered as plural than singular.
Page xxiii - ... conversation. The Hindu words, on the contrary, are such as the progress of civilization must soon have rendered necessary, being frequently expressive of the feelings of the mind or denoting those ordinary modes of thought which result from the social habits of mankind, or from the evils that tend to interrupt them.
Page xl - Malayo and English. To which is added some short Grammar, Rules and Directions for the better observation of the propriety and elegancy of this language. And also several Miscellanies, Dialogues and Letters, in English and Malayo...
Page v - Cqffries, who are occasionally found near the mountains, and a few tribes of the Orang benua, there does not exist a vestige of a nation anterior to the Malays in the whole peninsula. As the population of the Malay Peninsula has excited much interest, my attention has been particularly directed to the various tribes stated to be scattered over the country, Those on the hills are usually termed...