 These new contours of the land are believed to be the beginning of the naming "Tasikmalaya".It is either derived from a conflation of Sundanese language "tasik" and "(ma)layah", meaning, literary "an ocean of hills", or from Sundanese language "tasik", "jeung", and "laya", meaning "large tracts of sand" (, ).Other believes that the name is also defined as "an ocean of hills" but with different theory, where "Tasikmalaya" is believed to be originated from Sundanese language "tasik" (lake, sea), and "malaya" (a chain of mountains or highlands).