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Rh Tanjag, airs, assumed importance.

Tanjakan, an ascent, a hill on a road. A place to be gone up. See Nanjak.

Tanjěuk, to assist another in difficult matters, which have to be arranged by talking; to act as the advocate of another. Bogah pitjara di tanjěuk ku panghulu, having a question to be settled, the priest acted as his advocate.

Tanjěurkěn, to erect, to set up. To set up the materials of a building, or the like.

Tanjung, a point of land, a headland, a promontory. A cape.

Tanjung, a tree bearing a white flower. Mimusops Elengi.

Tantu, certain, sure; fixed, settled. Certainly.

Tanya, to ask, enquire, to interrogate, to question. Ari di tanya kudu némbalan, when a question is put you must answer.

Tapa, penance, seclusion, religious retirement. This word is in very frequent use when speaking of the wonderful feats of the men of former days, before the introduction of Mohammedanism, at it is a Hindu institution. Tapa with the Sundanese implies total abstinence from food or worldly pleasures. Tapa, C. 221, austerity, self-denial, penance. Subduing the passions. See Puasa.

Tapai, a preparation of boiled kĕtan rice, in which Ragi has been mixed and set to ferment for a couple of days. Tapai is given as a treat at all native entertainments.

Tapak, a mark, a trace, the impression of anything. A foot-mark. Tapak maung, the mark of a tiger's paw. Tapak kĕbo, the mark of a buffalo's foot.

Tapak-jalak, a cross, thus x, cut on a tree. See Jalak.

Tapak-lěung'an, the mark of the hand, a signature. Sign-manual.

Tapak-liman, name of a small plant growing by the road-sides, sometimes used medicinally. Literally: the Elephant's foot-mark.

Tapak-suku, impression of the sole of the foot.

Tapak-tuwěr, down on the ground, with both knees touching it.

Tapĕl, to affix, to plaster on. To make to adhere.

Tapi, if, but, yet, however. Tapi ulah di béré hěulah-an, but don't give any in the first instance.

Tapi, to sift, to riddle, to winnow. In maly Tampi,, p. 85.

Tapos, name of a tree, Elateriospermum Tapos.

Tapsir, Arabic, the koran interlined with a translation or paraphrase. Elucidation, explanation, interpretation.

Tapuk, gathered in a heap. Napuk di taněuh, collected in a heap on the ground.

Tara, even, flat, level, without slope, or with very little slope. Hatěup eta tara těuyn, those ataps (that thatch) are too flat, have not enough slope in the roof, and consequently leak. Tara, C. 223, a raft, a float (and consequently lying flat, and hence probably the sense in which our Sundas use it).

Tarajang, to attack, to set upon, to be overpowered by, overwhelmed; to come upon any person or thing; to happen to. Di tarajang ku musuh, attacked by the enemy.