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oF3 t6tak. Hewing; hacking; slashing; a blow
with a cutting instrument such as a sword.
Beberapa kanmi tetak kami tikam tiyada juga iya
mati: slash at him, stab him as we might, he
would not die; Sej. Mal., 43. Tetak ayer
nzahu-kah putus: if you hew water, will you
cut it to pieces? Prov.
Laksana golok kayu
Tetak ta'-makan, juwal ta'-laku:
like a wooden chopper which makes no impression if you hew with it and fetches nothing
if you try to sell it; worthless; Prov.
Te'takkan and nzenetakkan: to use (any sharp
instrument) for cutting; to cut with (anything); Ht. Abd., io6; Sh. Pr. Ach., 11; Sh.
Abd. Mk., 51. Bertetakkan: id., Sej. Mal.,
I7; Ht. Ind. Jaya.
Menetak: to give a cutting blow; Sej. Mal.,
83; Ht. Sg. Samb. Tetak-metnetak: to slash
at each other; to interchange cuts as men
fighting with cutlasses; Sh. Pr. Ach., 13.
Tangan menetak bahu imemikul: while the hand
hews the shoulder carries; energy, wasting
no time; Prov., J. S. A. S., I., 94.
JL - tetakala, tatkala or tetkala. [Skr. tatkala.] The time that; at the time that;
when. Pada tetkala itu: at that time; v.
kala.
Jp[ t6t6gok. A bird, the punggok, q. v.; a name
given to the pinggok in Patani and occasionally
in Kedah and Perak. Saperti teegok di-rumah
tinggal: like a night-bird in a deserted
house; absolute solitude or loneliness; Prov.,
J.S.A.S., II., I41.
J t6tal. Close together, of threads or threadlike parallel objects; without wide interstices;
close as the pattern of a cloth;-the converse
of jarang, q. v.
Kuweh tetal (Riau) a kind of cake;(Johor)
pulut apit, and (Kedah) pulut tetal. It is made
of cooked pulut with coco-nut milk, sugar and
eggs.
Crct ttampan. A napkin or kerchief of silk cloth
worn over the left shoulder in the presence of
a prince by certain court officials; see tampan.
ttuban. See tuban.
4SP t(tungap. (Kedah.) A preparation of salted
fish.; tttuka. A small ray-like fish; see tuka.,, tithlith. Arab. The Trinity.

L. tajalli. Arab. Revealed, clear, revelation,
- vision; Sh. I.M.P., 3;=nyata.

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Ac tajwid. Arab. Saying or doing what is
right; grammatical. Hukum tajwid: the laws
of correct enunciation (in reading Arabic);
Ht. Abd., 51, I50.
-rf tahrif. Arab. An anagram.,Jlj tahaffudl. Arab. Lihu 't-tahaffudl: the Tablet of Fate; Bust. Sal.
'jd tuhlfat. Arab. Present; favour; tribute; anything rare or beautiful, and so worthy of presentation. Tukfatu'l ajnas: a gift of miscellanies-a favourite expression in epistolary
Malay for describing a letter, and (perhaps) the
gifts (bingkisan) which used to accompany a
letter..,~ tahallil. Arab. To legalize the re-marriage
of fully divorced persons by using the individual colloquially called the china buta, i.e., a
person who marries a divorced woman only to
divorce her the next morning and so to supply
the legal requirement of an intermediate marriage to enable her to re-marry her original
husband; to legalize generally; to render lawful.
<- takhta. [Pers. takht.] A throne. Takhta
kerajaan: a royal throne; the throne of
sovereignty. Bertakhta: properly, to sit enthroned, but also used of residence in a general sense when speaking of a prince; Ht. Gul.
Bak., 117.
Sa-genap negeri dan takhta: every state and
throne; every country (by metaphor); Sh.
Nas., 1o.
takhayyul. Arab. To imagine, to fancy.,.. tadbir. Arab. Government. Mentadbirkan
perentah: to administer the Government, to
command; Sej. Mal., 35r..3 tSdas. A small projecting ring round a
column or pillar as distinct from a groove
let into a pillar (tali ayer).
tX t6dong. A swelling at the back of the neck
in contradistinction to a goitre or swelling under the chin or on the throat. Ulav t.: a
generic name for snakes with expanding hoods
or (occasionally) of hoodless snakes which
resemble hooded ones in some particular.
Ular tedong abu: (Malacca, Riau and Johor)
the hamadryad: = (Kedah) ular tedong sela.
Ular tedong liyar: a rat-snake with a long thin
tail with which it lashes furiously at assailants.

This snake is therefore believed to sting with
its tail.
Ular tWdong matahari: a name given sometimes (Singapore) to the yellow cobra and
sometimes to a snake with a bright red tip to
its tail.;.'b tajuhan. A small copper shield, K1.

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