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ID Word Notes Type
2505 mahasūla var. mahasula; n. 1.) a certain type of tax on land levied on certain categories of birtā lands or guṭhī endowments (M.C. Regmi 1978: 862 ). 2) “Public income from any source“ (Adhikari 1984: 353 ). t.t.
2530 mahasulyā n. irrigated paddy or unirrigated upland-fields in the hill regions on which taxes were fixed in cash (cp., M.C. Regmi 1978b: 862). t.t.
2313 mahātārā [?] n. originally the post of a village headman in the Khasa Kingdom; later used as a family name (Adhikary 1988: xliii). t.t.
2582 mahato n. a village headman in the Tarai districts. t.t.
2119 mahendramallī var. mahiṃdramali; n. monetary unit first coined by King Mahendra Malla (r. 1560-1574), consisting of 16 ānās and equivalent to half of a Mogul rupee (cf. Walsh 1908: 683-684). t.t.
1891 māhute var. māhut; n. elephant rider. t.t.
513 mājhī var. mājhi; n. an ethnic group of the inner Terai whose traditional main occupation is boat building and river transportation service; ferryman or fisherman (M.C. Regmi 1999: 137). t.t.
2434 majhiyā n. exonym for the ethnic group of Yakkhā. t.t.
2005 majilis var. majlis; n. assembly, court. t.t.
1002 makarasaṅkrānti var. makarasaṃkrānti, māghesaṃgrā̃tī, māghyāsaṃkrānti; n. 1) day marking the passage of the sun into the zodical sign of capricorn (makara) and first day of the solar month of Māgha. 2) the festival held on that day. t.t.
2101 māla n. an office for collecting revenues (M.L. Karmacharya 1996: 63; M.C. Regmi 1978: 862). Cf. māla aḍḍā t.t.
2522 māla aḍḍā n. a district-level revenue office; see also māla . t.t.
2741 mālapota aḍḍā var. māla aḍḍā, mālapota, māla; n. land revenue office where records of land ownership and transference are kept. t.t.
2554 mālapuvā n. small, sweet, thick fritters made of wheat flour, sugar and spices or of bananas, milk, sugar and spices; prepared on festive occasions in Nepal and Northern India (Pathak 2007: 341; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malpua). t.t.
1990 malauṭo var. malauṭā; n. lit. "solitary"; a category of sacrificial buffaloes. Under the provision that the list given in E_2779_0005 provides a grading of bulls according to either size or age, the malauṭo is the third, bigger than kaṭuvā and kāṃjokho, but smaller than satāra. t.t.
2596 Mālī [New. Gathu] n. a Newar caste whose members are gardeners by profession. t.t.
2501 mālika [lw. H. fr. A. mālik] var. mālik, mālīka; n. master, owner. t.t.
1011 māmulī var. māmalī, māmuli; 1) adj. ordinary, usual, customary. 2) n. usual remuneration or provision, usually non-monetary. 3) n. a customary levy related to religious functions (see e.g. Regmi 1979: 158); cf. koṭa māmulī, Dasaĩ māmulī. t.t.
1976 mānā n. a volumetric unit equivalent to 0.568 litres, or 1/8 of a pāthi. t.t.
2556 mānā var. mana; n. 1) volumetric measure unit equivalent to 0.568 litres, or 1/8th of a pāthi (M.R. Pant 2002: 134 ); 2) a measure of weight equal to 82.28 pounds. t.t.
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