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as water or any liquid , or small loose material , as grain or sancl. In the Javanese 

 and Malay of Batavia they say Labur , to pour out. See Bur. 

 Tachan, not yet. Composed of To, the short for Hanto , not , and Achan, at all = 

 not at all. Tachan datang , he is not yet corae. Tachan di' béré, I have not yet 

 given it. Tachan asah , not yet ripe. 

 Ta cl ah, to uphold, to lift up, to intercept from falling. To catch as it falls. 

 Tadah, aspect. Tadah wétan, with an Eastern aspect. Tadah kulon , with a Western 

 aspect. Saivah tadah , rain-sawahs , which do not derive their water frora any streaai 

 but are depenclent on rain, thus dependent on the aspect or season. Sawahs catching 

 the water of irrigation as it falls in rain. 

 Tadi, just now, a short time ago. Tadi geus leumpang , he went away just now. 

 Tagal, a plain, open grass-lands. Gras-slands in contra distinction to forest-lands or 

 Leuweung. Tagal eurih , a plain of ëurih-grass. Tagal kaso , a plain of kaso-grass. 

 Kebo mapal di tagal , buffaloes graze on open plains. Tagal is , however , sometiraes 

 used to designate any plain where any particular kind of vegetation abounds , even 

 though that consists in jungle trees. Tagal rinyung , Tagal haréno , Tagal haréndong , 

 Tagal aioi, the last of these is, a plain of bambus, and the other expressions indicate 

 a plain of their respective woods. But in these cases it by no means folloïvs that 

 the land is flat or even ; on the contrary it is often in ravines. 

 Tagal, name of a residency in Central Java. See the following, 

 Tagal-arum, the scented field. Name of the Emperor Mangkurat, who died in A, D. 



1677 and was buried near Tagal, at a place where the ground was sweet-scented. 

 Tagënan, to receive in fight. To await the attack of. To oppose oneself to. 

 Tagënkën, to fix firmly, to fix by putting a stake in the ground to tie some other ob- 

 ject to. To set a stake in the ground not upright but at a slope or angle. 

 Tagi, to demand payment of a debt, to dun. To claim a debt with importunity. Bogali 



pihutang Jcudu di tagi, if you have incoming debts you must dun for them. 

 Tah, an exclamation of displeasure, of vexation , or of simple interrogation where we 

 would perhaps use a circumlocution, as: how could you do so? what nonsense is that? 

 Saha tah me owoh , who is it who is not here? Gedé tah, is it large? Tah! sia ma 

 sok kitu, damn you, you are always doing so. 

 Ta ban, to support, to endure, to hold out, to bear; to refrain , to forbear. To tahan, 

 I cannot endure it , I cannot put up with it. I have no longer strength to bear it. 

 Sa-bulan cleui tahan Icénéh, it will still hold out fora month. Napsu kudu di tahan, 

 the passions must be bridled in (refrained). Ari ka jé Ie ma gering kudu nahau manéh , 

 in the case of sick people you must hold yourself in (forbear). 

 Tahanan, an anvil , a blacksmith/s anvil. 

 Tahan g, a tub . a cask, a vat, any large receiver. Tahang minyak, anoil-vat, Tahang 



aula tétés , a molasses-receiver. 

 Tahëun, to set as a trap. Talieun buwu, to set this kind of fish-trap. Tahcun piga- 

 sol, to set this kind of tiger-trap. 



