atap

In Far East countries a similar technique know as atap is used.

Chapter 4 1997

What with making light shelters against sun and rain, in Malay called atap, usually erected for long journeys, the placing of split bamboo sticks in the bottom of my prahu, and with the Penihings evidently unaccustomed to such work, it was eight o'clock before the start was made.

Through Central Borneo; an Account of Two Years' Travel in the Land of Head-Hunters Between the Years 1913 and 1917 Carl Lumholtz 1886

The most general mode of covering houses is with the atap, which is the leaf of a species of palm called nipah.

The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants William Marsden 1795

These are usually built in the same manner on piles of wood of ten to fifteen feet high, the walls and roof being made of "atap," or the leaf of the nipa-palm dried, and the flooring of "lanties" or split bamboo.

On the Equator Harry De Windt 1894

The leaflet of the sago folded and tied side by side on the smaller midribs form the "atap" or thatch in universal use, while the product of the trunk is the staple food of some = hundred thousands of men.

The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 2 Alfred Russel Wallace 1868

FYI, sejak abis gempa - sampe sekarang, aku masi (harus) tidur di bawah (lt. 1) - biar cepet larinya - ga boleh di atas - bahaya, lagian atap kayanya agak miris bisa rubuh -.

mayoineko Diary Entry mayoineko 2006

Dry figs may also be ground into flour which may be stored or mixed with grain flour and used to prepare atap, a type of thick porridge (Turkana).

Chapter 7 1999

The vegetable is normally cooked and eaten with ugali or it may be cooked together with flour to a stuff known as ngunzakutu (Kamba) or atap

Chapter 7 1999

The flour is normally mixed with sorghum flour and used to prepare stiff porridge (atap).

Chapter 7 1999

Seeds may be sun-dried, ground and the resulting meal mixed with sorghum flour and made into a porridge, atap (Turkana).

Chapter 7 1999