Note 1 — PART IV.
Reading edition
Lit. eatables. Sometimes the Hindustani word hazri is used for breakfast.
2. Meza or meja, table, is borrowed from the Persian.
3. Jandela is from the Portuguese janella, and is applied to the windows of the houses of Europeans. Tingkap is the window or window-shutter of a native house.
4. Pasang signifies to give action to, to apply.
5. Dian is the better word. Lilin is literally wax.
6. Palita, in Hindustani (corrupted from the Persian patilah), signifies the match of a gun, a candle, a wick used in sorcery.