The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary

Value samak

Language:
Malay
Parameter:
tanning; material for tanning and prerserving leather, cordage, nets, etc.; tanning material is often bark from certain trees, mostly Eugenias, but mangrove bark is also used; one passage speaks of a wounded man’s clothes being stained with blood “as though tanned” [0fee1c67ea0411753248b4c84a74af03]
References
Wilkinson 1959