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Tahëunan, to entrap, to set a trap to catch. 



Taheur, to boil , to seeth. Chai na Jcudu di taheur , you must boil that water. 



Tahi, ordure, dung, excrement, sediment, dregs, refuse; rust, dross. 



Tahi-anjing, dog's ordure, — a term by which great disgust or disbelief is expressed, 



Tahi-bëusi, iron-rust. 



T a h i - c h ë 1 i , ear-wax. 



Tahi-hayam, fowl's dung. Name of a plant. 



Tahi-lalar, fly's dung, freckles on the face. 



Ta h i-manu k, bird's dung. Name of a parasitic plant. 



Tahi- min yak, oil-cake. The refuse of making oil from the ground-nut or kachang 

 tanëuh. This oil-cake is much used as a valuable manure, especially for sugar-cane. 



Tahi-tambaga, dung of copper, verdigris. 



Tahir, Arabic, clean, pure, chaste, holy. 



Tahlil, Arabic, Praise to God. Praying together in numbers and calling upon God. The 

 act of so doing is Dikiran, which see. 



Tahun, a year, the period of twelve months. Patahunan, yearly cultivation. Tahunan 

 sia pindah ka gunung , the year you removed to the mountains. Ki-tahun , name of 

 a large forest-tree with strong , hard , durable wood , probably so called from this 

 circumstance. 



Tahwangan, impossible! it does not look likely! 



Tai-hiang, rust on metals. Probably Tal, the short in composition for Tahi, ordure, 

 dung, and E yang , a divinity. From rust coming, by an unaccountable way to a 

 native , upon metals , especially on iron , which gets rusty from mere contact with the 

 atmosphere. 



Tai-hiangan, covered with rust. 



T a i k a n , to ascend , to get up , to climb. Tang kal kalapa di taikan , he climbed up the 

 cocoa-nut-tree. 



Taikkën, to encrease, to augment. To lift one object upon another. Pajeg na di taik- 

 ken, they have encreased bis rent. Earga na geus di taikken, the price has been 

 risen , augmented. Eta barang taikken deiti ka na méja , lift up those goods again 

 upon the table. 



Tail, the 16th part of a kati. A gold weight to which the Sunda people appear to attach 

 no definite quantity, as they weight their gold and silver by Spanish dollars, or bits 

 of lead made of the size and weight of Spanish dollars with subdivisions. 



Taji, the artificial spur of a game-cock. The ankle joint of a man, or rather the bone 

 which projects at the joint. See Si-ih. Taji' is often heard in proper names , as the 

 name of a man. Pangéran Taji Wang sa occurs as the name of a chief. Lawang Taji 

 is the name of a village on the Bolang Estate. 



Tajin, the scum from the boiling of rice. Water in which rice has been seethed, pre- 

 pared as a kind of weak gruel for sick people, 



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