Borrowing from language__Malay, ultimately from Persian. Dempwolff (1938) marked this as a loan distribution, but provided a reconstruction simply to illustrate the regularity of the sound correspondences. However, as with other loans used for a similar purpose, the sound correspondences are not entirely regular, the final glottal stop in language__Tagalog being an immediate clue to its loan status.
| WMP | ||
| Tagalog | talároʔ | scales; a balance for weighing; a weight; a piece of metal used in weighing |
| Malay | təraju | pair of scales, balance; tent ropes; rod supporting the heddles of a loom; the string joining loosely the two extremities of the body of a kite, and to which is attached the line by which the kite is flown |
| Ngaju Dayak | tarajo | a small gold scale; to weigh, consider |
| Old Javanese | taraju | pair of scales, balance |
| Malagasy | tarazú-ina | to be carried on one end of a pole, in contradistinction to , carried as two burdens at each end of a pole |