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T. babi, or rumput t. babi: a kind of weed,
vernonea cinerea.
T. besi: rust.
T. bintang: small caterpillars.
T. burong: a kind of plant.
T. gergaji: sawdust.
T. harus: driftwood borne by the current.
T. kahwah: coffee dregs.
T. kerbaz, or rumput t. kerbau: a plant,
fintbristilis miliacea.
T. ketan; bits of shavings.
T. lalat: a mole; Ht. Hamza, II; Ht. Ganj.
Mara, 9.
T. mata: mucus about the eye.
T. minyak: refuse in making oil.
T. panas: prickly heat.
T. penyakit: an eruption consequent on
illness.
T. telinga: wax in the ear.
T. tikus: a kind of cake.
T. udang-udang: the discharges in dysentery
complaints.
T. ular: the rough ends of silk threads on
the surface of silk cloth of native make.
T. uli: a term of abuse.
Buwat t.: a metaphor for getting into debt.
Uban t. harimnau: grey hair where either the
white or the black hairs have a great preponderance in numbers.
Ular t. kerbau: a snake (unidentified).
Tahi is often pronounced tai, colloquially,
and te in compounds, e. g., te-angin, te-uli,
te-ayann.
) tanya. Enquiry; questioning.
Bertanya: to enquire. Bertanyakan: = bertanya akan: to enquire after.
Bertanyai: to make an enquiry; to put a
question.
Menanyai and tzenanyakan: to ask about
(anything).
Sewapertanya: to obtain from a person a
revelation of what he desires to hide; Muj.,
76.
s. tabaraka. Arab. May (he) be blessed.
Tabdraka'llah: blessed be God.
"LJ ttbakang. A fish; also temIbakang, q. v.

q., t6bat. Drawing a barrier across anything;
damming a river; closing a thoroughfare to
traffic; barricading. Mgnebat: to dam.
\t t6bra. (Johor.) A kind of fish; v. tembera
and kedera.

t6brau. A name given to several of the
larger grasses, chiefly sacharuin arundinaceum,
sacharum ridleyi, and thysanolwcna acarifera.
i4. tabariyyat. Arab. A receipt; a quittance.
G t6bas. (Onom.) The felling of undergrowth
or of low secondary jungle, as distinct from
the cutting down of large trees (tebang, q. v.)
Tebas buloh sa-perdu: to cut down a clump of
bamboos; to destroy a whole family, or to
marry several sisters; Prov.
Di-tebas-nya senmak-samun: he cleared the
ground of undergrowth.
Tebaskan: to have secondary growth cleared
away; to remove undergrowth. Menebas:
to cut down undergrowth. M. jalan yang
senmak-semzak: to clear roads that have become
overgrown.
Menebas mnzeebang: to clear land of all forest
growths; to prepare land for planting; Sej.
Mal., 55. Menebang tmenebas: id.; Ht. Abd.,
367.
3 t6bus. Redemption from slavery, from mortgage, or from a pawnbroker's possession; release from the power of another person.
Gedong teagadai sa-hingga tiyada dapat di-tebus
jadi di-lelong: stores so heavily mortgaged
that they could not be redeemed and had to
be sold by auction; Bint. Tim., 23 Feb., I895.
Meebuss: to redeem. Mnzebus hanba: to
buy a slave; Ht. Pg. Ptg., 27; Ht. Best.,
I6. Menebus kaus: to redeem a pair of shoes
from pawn; Ht. Hamz., 19.
taba' or tabi'. Arab. Follower, disciple;
Ht. Zaly., 5.:' t6bang. (Onom.) The clearing of virgin
forest; the cutting down of large trees as
distinct from undergrowth (v. tebas). Di-tMbang dan di-belah-belah akan menjadi kayu api:
felled and cut up to be used as firewood; Ht.
Abd., 295.
Menebang: to fell ( heavy timber).
Penebang: a hatchet; an axe; any instrument for felling large trees; Sh. Sri Bun., 8.
t/beng. (Kedah.) Teasing; irritation;
worrying. Jangan di-tebeng=jangan di-amati.

tebing. The raised bank of a river; the dyke
raised at the side of a cutting by the earth
thrown out in excavation; a sand bank
Di-tebing parit itu berkeliling di-tanam-nya
pokok sena: senna trees were planted round
the banks of the moat; Ht. Abd., 58. Tebing
runtoh: the sunken bank upon which the
pauh janggi grows.

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