484 A DICTIONARY SUNDANESE 



Saivah hatarajang cha-ali, the sawah was overwhelmed by a flood. Tarajang ka 

 kula, mohal bisa, if such should occur to me, I should not be able ( to do it). 

 Tarajé, steps, a ladder. The steps or ladder of a house. 



Taram, and taraman, to commence, to raake a beginning. Geus taram, he lias made a 

 commencement. Pagawéan gerrah di taraman, look sharp and begin the work. Arambha , 

 C. 64, beginning, commencement. 

 Taram-tiram, to make a beginning. To make efforts to begin. 

 Tarang, the forehead. 



Tarap-tarap, some getting, others not getting. Partial success. 

 Tarapti, completed. All arrangements satisfactorily made. 

 Tarasan, using for the first time. Making a first trial with, as clothes, a horse, a 



wife or any other thing. 

 Tarasan, felling primeval forest for the purpose of making a humah. A humah made 



from such primeval forest. 

 Taratas, to cut a small path or opening through a forest, either for the sake of merely 



opening a way, or of marking some boundary. This sounds like a plural of Tatas , 



by the insertion of ra in the word. Yet Tatas is not a Sunda word, but in Malay 



means to break forth, burst through, break open. Marsden, page 69. 

 Taraté, name of a plant, with very broad leaves, growing in water, on which the 



leaves repose. Nelumbium Speciosum , the Lotus-plant. Called Nélum in Ceylon. 

 Clough, 339. Marsden says Tarati, the Lotus, is Japanese. 

 T ara was, to hold an inspection before commencing operations. To visit the jungle for 



the purpose of selecting a proper place to make a humah , mark the trees and cut 



away a little grass by way of taking possession. 

 Tarawé, to collect in the mosque, at nighttime, during the Pnasa, or month of 



fasting, and hold prayers. 

 Tarigo, wheat. Clough, vol. 1, page 618. Tariga, Portuguese , wheat. 

 Tarik, to drag, to haul along, to pull, to draw. To transport gcods in carts. To veer 



or draw round as the wind. To hoist a sail or flag. Tukang tarik, cartmen , men 



employed with buffaloes or carts making any transports. Tarilc layar , to make 



sail, hoist the sail. Tarik bandera, to hoist the flag. Ang'in na tarik ka kulon , 



the wind is drawing round towards the west. 

 Tarik, a rapid in a river; the quick flow of water. Flowing rapidly. 

 Tarik- kolot, the place where a village or house has formerly stood, but now abandoned. 



A deserted homestead. Name of a variety of weed. Quere? Tarik, Arabic, way, 



path,' order; rite. 

 Tarima, to receive, to accept, to get possession of. To acknowledge , to confess, to 



own to; to submit oneself to. 

 Tarimbang, said of persons crouched in a row. Derived from Timbang , to weigh , as 



persons so seated act as a counterpoise to others. 



