Tumbal, to ward off, to avert by prayer or invocation (Jampé). Thus a Tumbal is made at a forest or jungle that is to be cut down for a plantation. It is also done at any place where we want to work in order to avoid evil, and not be overtaken by disease. Anything hung up by way of a Jampé, as various roots, leaves, etc. Tumbal is thus a superstitious observance of the natives on certain occasions. Tambol, sorcery, in Malay, see Crawfurd's Dissertation, page 197.
Tumbu, to shoot up, to come up as seed from the ground. To shoot, to vegetate. The etymon of the word is Wu or Bhu, C. 688, to be, with ti and um prefixed and thus indicating: in the act of becoming. In the Bisaya language of the Philippine Islands, the word is called Tubu, to grow, Crawfurd's Dissertation, page 116, and even at the Tonga Islands of the Pacific Tubu is the word used for: to spring up as plants. The Sunda word has thus the peculiar M inserted to imply continuity. See Tumagung. In the Maori of New Zealand Tupu, is to shoot or sprout. Tubuni or Tumbani, C. 238, plantation, the act of planting trees, labours in a nursery.
Tumbuk, to pound, to stamp. To strike with the clenched fist. To drive as a pile of wood. To thump down. Compounded from the particle Ta and Buk, with the peculiar um placed between them.
Tumbung, pudendum muliebre. In Malay Tumbung means: the seed of plants, evidently from Tumbu, to shoot up. Thus the Sunda word will literaly convey the idea of the place whence the human race springs. In Malay also Crawfurd gives Tumbung, prolapsus uteri vel ani. The final ng thus modifies the sense a little. Tumbong in Malay also, Marsden, page 81, is a hole in the surface of anything hollow; a vent or spile-hole; the anus. Tumbong kalapa, the hole in a cocoa-nut from whence it sprouts.
Tumbung kanyut, name of a plant, Canthium Horridum. Kanyut means bag or purse.
Tumbung uching, pudendum felicis domesticae, implies breeding like a cat, as we would say breeding like a rabbit.
Tumorék, said of young jungle about a couple of years old, where a humah has been, and through which a man can with difficulty make his way from the density of the jungle. Derived from Torék, deaf, and the peculiar um inserted, as if the jungle would give no ear to our endeavours to pass.
Tumpah, to spill, to pour out, to shed.
Tumpak and Tumpakan, to get upon, to mount, to ride. To wear. See Umpak. Tumpak kuda, to ride a horse. Tumpak kréta, to ride in a carriage. Tumpak sapatu, to wear shoes. Tumpak sĕrawĕl, to wear trousers. Tumpak kapal, to travel or sail in a ship. Kuda di tumpakan, you must mount upon it.
Tumpang, to pile up. Piled up. Heaped up one above another. Gunung patumpangtumpang, mountains piled up one above another. Bata kudu di tumpangkĕn maka na tuhur, the bricks must be piled up one above another in order to dry.
Tumpangan, fare, passage money. Freight of goods loaded in a vessel. See Numpang.
