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writing in 1736, provided another explanation of Temasek's origin and meaning. Citing Petrus van der Vorm, he claimed that the Malay word was itself from an Arabic expression Tamasûkh ( ????? ), a composite of tama (??), and sûkh ( ??? ), meaning "market", "marketplace" or "place of purchase". Tamasûkh was a play on Ujong Tanah ("end of land"), which aptly describes Singapore's special position at the end of both the Malay Peninsula, as well as an imaginary line conceived by navigators to divide the

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