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A DICTIONARY SUNDANESE
Sawah katarajang cha-ah, 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 make a beginning. Gĕus taram, he has made a commencement. Pagawéan gĕrrah 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.

Tarawas, 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 Puasa, 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 goods 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. Tarik layar, to make sail, hoist the sail. Tarik bandéra, 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.