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4a tambah. Addition; continuation; increase
by continuation. Nasi tambah: a second helping of rice-rice passed round in the middle
of a meal, to allow persons who have begun
by not taking enough to replenish their plates.
Buwat nasi tambah: (by metaphor) to have
concubines as well as wives: J.S.A.S., III., 26.
Tambahan pula and bertambah pula: furthermore; the more.
lmdin khdtib lagi berdosa,
Bertambah pula kita yang jahil:
when even priests and deacons sin, much
more then must we, the ignorant laity. Prov.
Tamnbahi: to make an addition to anything;
Ht. Abd., 45, 209. Metnalbahi: id.; Ht.
Abd., 232; Ht. Gul. Bak., 6.
Mlenambah: to increase; Ht. Abd., 183, i86.
Menambahkan: id. Menambahkan pengatahuwan: to increase knowledge; Ht. Abd., 261.
Penamlbahan: an addition; a continuation;
an appendix. Sha'ir pe-nambahan: a poem
added as a sort of postscript; a poetic address
not read with the rest but added afterwards;
Sh. Jub. Mal., I5.
~ tamboh or tambuh. Ken Tambohan, or Ken
Tambuhlan: the name of the heroine of the
poem known as the Sha'ir ken Tabohan (or
Tanbuhan), or Sha'ir Raden Munteri.
4u. tumboh. Sprouting up; growing up; springing up-of plants; bursting out-of eruptive
diseases. Ta'-htumboh, mahu-kah inelata: if (a
plant) does not grow will it creep along the
ground; if a thing is not true will it be
repeated ( ta'-sunggoh, orang ta'-kata ): there
is no smoke without fire; Prov.
Tumibohan: young plants; sprouts. Tumbohtumbohant: (I) plants generally; vegetable
growths of all sorts; Ht. Abd., I04; (2)=
kettmbohan, q. v. infra.
Bertumboh: (I) to sprout up; (2) to be
vaccinated. Barang di-an di-tanam nteschaya bertumtboh-lah iya: wherever the plant
is planted, there too will it certainly grow
up; Prov., Ht. Abd., 377.
Penyakit ketuinbohan ( Ht. Abd., 358 );
or tumiboh-tuwbohan (Muj., 70): small-pox.
Tanant ketumbohan: vaccination; Ht.
Abd., 358.
The small-pox eruption has different descriptive names according to the appearance of the
pustules. The principal names are: ketumbohan jintan, k. ketumbar, k. jagong, (all light
eruptions), and k. lakom, k. tapak kuching, k.
ekor musang, k. kacha puteh, k. kacha merah,
k. kacha kilat, k. buwah bereinbang, and K. duri
nangka (severer forms). The last is believed

to work mainly under the surface and to be
almost invariably fatal.
L tambi. (Tamil=younger brother.) A form
of address often used in speaking to young
Klings; (Straits Settlements) an errand boy;
a messenger; a Kling generally.

Bapa-mu orang tiyada bertentu,
Tavbi dan China di-pasar batu:
your father cannot be named with certainty,
he must have been some Kling or Chinaman
from the markets; Sh. Panj. Sg.
c. tgmbi. An elbow thrust, an outward dig at
a man or object by one's side in contradistinction to a backward thrust with the
elbow at some one behind (sigong).

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t/mberang. The stays or ropes which keep
the mast of a boat firmly in position; Sh. Sri
Bun., 9, 22, 46, 47. T. lenggang: stays from
the mast to the nearest points of the gunwale.
T. turut: stays fastened to the gunwale behind
the mast so as to protect it against a forward
strain. Kapal mas sa-buwah dengan sakaliyan
perkakas-nya saperti temnberang dan tiyang dan
kentudi: a golden ship with all its fittings such
as stays and masts and rudder; Ht. Bakht.,
39. Putus-lah temtberang di-tengah laut: the
stays gave way while we were at sea; Pel.
Abd., 1o.
Langit bertemzberang, bumni berkelikir: (the
skies as stays with the earth as their mastring) or langit berkelikir bumi be-rtetmberang:
(the heavens as the mast-ring and the earth
as its stays): an equivalent for the corresponding expression: salah-salah pikir mzenjadi
hamba orang: confusion of thought makes
one the slave of others; Prov., Sh. Lail. Mejn.,
48; J. S. A. S., XI., 75.

f.. tembereng or t/mbiring. A bit; a section
of anything; a curved or sharp edge. T.
tajam: a sector (in geometry). T. panjang:
a zone.
T. tangan: the outer edge of the hand, the
side further from the thumb. T. kaki: the
corresponding portion of the foot.
3J,-.c temberak. A tree (unidentified); K1.
jjxc temberek. Potsherds, broken earthenware;
usually temnbekar, q. v.
tK tembekar or tembikar. Glazed earthenware, porcelain, potsherds; bits of glazed
earthenware; fragments of pottery ware;
broken crockery. Di-surat 'azlmat ini kapada
tembekar periyok yang beharu beharu pechah:
this charm is to be written on a fragment of
a newly-broken cooking-pot; Muj., 72. Daripada tembekar juga perbuwatan-nya: made of
porcelain; Ht. Mar. Mah. Di-mana pinggan
pechah di-situ-lah tembekar tinggal: where the
plates are broken, there the broken fragments
remain, Prov. Di-titek belah di-palu belah,
tembekarjuga akanjadi-nya: split when tapped,
and split when struck, it must become broken
pottery in any case; defeat must be accepted
when it is inevitable; Prov., J. S. A. S., III.,
34 -T. mangkok: pieces of broken cups; Ht. Kal.
Dam., 6I.

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