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Tanjag, airs, assumed importance. 



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



Tanjëuk, to assist another in difficult raatters, which have to be arranged by talking; 



to act as the advocate of another. Bogah pitjara di lanjeuk ku panglndu , having a 



question to be settled , the priest acted as his advocate. 

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

 ïanjung, 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. Aridi tanyd kudu nèmbalan , when 



a question is put you must answer. 

 Ta pa, penance, seclusion , religious retireraent. This word is in very frequent use when 



speaking of the wonderful feats of the men of former days, before the introduction 



of Mahomedanism , 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. 

 Tap ai, a preparation of boiled ketan 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 tracé, the impression of anything. A foot-mark. Tapak maung , the 



mark of a tiger's paw. Tapak kebo , the mark of a buffaloe's foot. 

 Tapak- ja lak, a cross, thus X, cut on a tree. See Ja lak. 

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

 Tapak-liman, name of a small plant growing by the road-sides, sometimes used medicin- 



ally. Literally: the Elephant's foot-mark. 

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

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

 Tapël, to affix, to piaster on. To make to adhere. 

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



instance. 

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

 Tap os, name of a tree, Elateriospermum Tapos. 

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



explanation, interpretation. 

 Ta puk, gathered in a heap. Napuk di taneuh, collected in a heap on the ground. 

 Tara, even, flat, Ie vel, without slope, or with very little slope. Hateup éta iara teuyn, 



those ataps (that thatch) are too flat, have not enough slope in the roof , and consequently 



leak. Tdra, C. 223, a raft, a float (and consequently lying flat, and hence pro- 



bably 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 iarajang ku musuh, attacked by the enemy. 



