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| ID | Word | Notes | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 849 | ambala | var. aṃbala, amavala, amala, amāla, ammala; n. 1) territory, administrative unit, district. 2) office, position, term of office, honour, respect (Turner 1931: s.v. amal); "territory in Gorkhali official discourse; land occupied by force, land from which the state has acquired right to collect revenue; generally conveys the same meaning as the term amal" (Michael 2012: 129). 3) a Limbu subbā's court or council in Pallo Kirāta (Caplan 2000: 225). | t.t. |
| 1766 | ambalamāmula | [ambala + māmula] var. amalamāmula; n. a levy (cf. M.C. Regmi 1978: 861 (on “Kot-mamuli”)) collected within a particular administrative area (ambala)? | t.t. |
| 3200 | amilāna | var. amilan; Government employee | t.t. |
| 2009 | amin | n. 1) a confidential agent, a trustee, a commissioner; 2) a native officer in the revenue or judicial departments of colonial India (Wilson 1955: s.v. amin, umeen). | t.t. |
| 2204 | aminī | [fr. A.] var. amīnī, amini; n. Rana period administrative office in the Tarai districts also functioning as courts of first instance (Adhikari 1984: 344; Kumar 1967: 164; Sever 1993: 477). | t.t. |
| 2205 | aminī gosvārā | var. amīnī gosvārā; n. office for keeping the paperwork for the district aminī offices. | t.t. |
| 2370 | aṃśabanḍā | [aṃśa +banḍā] var. aṃsavāḍo, aṃsabhāḍo; n. partition, division of property. | t.t. |
| 853 | ānā | [fr. S. *āṇvaka- ?] n. var. ānnā; 1) monetary unit worth one sixteenth of a rupee with four ānās constituting one sukā, equivalent to one ganḍā; in documents usually represented by one to three diagonal dashes, sometimes as a loop with two or three jags. 2) sixteenth part of land, property etc. (cf. Parājulī et al 1995: s.v. ānā). | t.t. |
| 3057 | anantacaturdaśī | [S.] n. fourteenth of the bright fortnight of the month of Bhādrapada. | t.t. |
| 2761 | aṅgula | n. measurement of length equal to the width of an adult human finger. | t.t. |
| 2931 | anna | [S.] n. food; grain; crop. | t.t. |
| 7 | Apīla Aḍḍā | “Name of the appelate court at the capital substituted for Adalat Goswara after 1901.“ (Kumar 1967: 164 ) | t.t. |
| 1792 | apsariyā | [cf. S. apasāra] var. apsarīyā, apasariā, apsariā; n. rebel ? (see Pant 2002: 84, 85, 93, 94 and passim; cf. Parājulī et al 1995: s.v. apasārī). | t.t. |
| 2629 | aputālī | var. aputāli; also maryo aputālī / moroaputālī; n. escheatable property that falls to the state if a person dies without heirs. | t.t. |
| 2864 | āratī | [fr. S. ārātrika] n. 1) a ceremony performed in worshipping a deity by moving a dish with a lamp in a series of circles in front of the idol. 2) a dish holding a lamp, incense or other articles used in the ceremony of āratī. | t.t. |
| 2789 | arcala | n. shrub or small tree with small black eatable fruits (Antidesma acidum Retz.), grown in central and eastern Nepal for fodder (Manandhar 2002: 92). | t.t. |
| 2436 | arghā | [S. arghya] var. argha; n. oblation of milk, yoghurt, barley, dūbo gras and other ingredients mixed with water in a small boat-shaped spouted vessel used in Hindu rituals. | t.t. |
| 2905 | ārī | n. trough, tray. | t.t. |
| 2332 | arjabegī | n. a government officer; “under the Moghal government, this was an officer appointed to receive and present petitions. In the 1840s in Nepal, an arzabegi was attached to the Adalat (court); later we find him as the superintendent of the jail. He has also been referred to as the person who announced to a condemned man his sentence and who presided over the execution.“ (Edwards 1975: 108) | t.t. |
| 855 | arjī | var. arji; n. 1) request, petition, application. 2) a respectful letter to a superior authority, especially the king. | t.t. |
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