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Old 9th November 2009, 12:16 AM   #6
A. G. Maisey
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warangka, warongko, wrongko, rangka, rongko

all these spellings are acceptable, and refer to the entire keris scabbard, not just the top part, which in Jawa we can refer to as either the atasan or the gambar, whilst the long lower part is the gandar; in loose colloquial speech the atasan alone may be referred to as the warangka.
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