Image via WikipediaThere are several theories on the agent of the name 'Terengganu'. One approach attributes the name's agent to terang ganu, Malay for 'bright rainbow'.[2] Another story, said to accept been originally anecdotal by the ninth Absolutist of Terengganu, Baginda Omar, tells of a affair of hunters from Pahang ambulant and hunting in the breadth of what is now southern Terengganu. One of the hunters spotted a big beastly barb lying on the ground. A adolescent affair affiliate asked to which beastly did the barb belong. The hunter, not alive which animal, artlessly answered taring anu (Malay: 'fang of something'). The affair after alternate to Pahang with a affluent abundance of game, fur and sandalwood, which afflicted their neighbors. They asked the hunters breadth did they antecedent their riches, to which they replied, from the acreage of taring anu, which after acquired into Terengganu.[2] Terengganu was alleged Trangkanu (Thai: ตรังกานู) by the Siamese aback it was beneath their influence.
