The former word means the bows of a boat, the latter is applied to things fitted together, as sirih leaves are fitted when one leaf is laid on the top of another.
Bun (Dutch), a large tin or copper box for tobacco or sirih leaves--Van der Tuuk.
After this it is dried by being kept near the fire in the back premises (where it is subjected from time to time to the sembor sirih treatment).
The bakong is a kind of lily; the sirih is the Malay betel-vine.
It is very generally eaten by the natives with their sirih or betel, and is supposed to have the property of cleansing and sweetening the mouth; for which reason it is also rubbed to the gums of infants.
This is eaten with the leaf of the sirih or betel (Piper betel L.
The South Americans chew the cocoa and mambee, and the eastern people the betel and areca, or, as they are called in the Malay language, sirih and pinang.
All the preparation consists in spreading on the sirih leaf a small quantity of the chunam and folding it up with a slice of the pinang nut.
The bag containing their sirih or betel hangs over the shoulder by a string, if it may be so termed, of brass wire.
So he went on with two boys only who carried his sirih and betel, and soon reached the top of the mountain among great rocks, on the edge of the great gulf whence issue forth continually smoke and vapour.
In a small Bamboo case, prettily carved and ornamented, the Dyak carries his sirih and lime for betel chewing, and his little long-bladed knife has a Bamboo sheath.
A married woman may not accept a cigar or a sirih leaf from a stranger under pain of death.
And when they were all assembled, and the betel and sirih had been handed round, he told them what had happened.
Everyone was attended by one or two servants bearing his sirih and betel boxes, who were also mounted on ponies; and great numbers more had gone on in advance or waited to bring up the rear.
The bride sits in state and receives the congratulatory visits of her relatives and friends, and after the actual ceremony is over, the newly-married couple sit on a seat raised above the guests, and the sirih and betel-nut are largely chewed.
One of these contained betel-nut, and the other sirih leaves.
The women, in these processions, crowd round the heads as they proceed from house to house, and put sirih and betel-nut in the mouths of the ghastly dead, and welcome them!
I did everything man could do to shake the Pangeran's resolution; and I believe I should have been successful, had his stock of tobacco and sirih [5] not been expended.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sirih" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
