ID | Word | Notes | Type |
1795 | sunuvāra | n. an ethnic group in the eastern hills of Nepal. | t.t. |
2853 | surāhī | [P.] var. surahī; n. a water jar with a long narrow neck. | t.t. |
2924 | suruvāla | n. tight-fitting trousers. | t.t. |
1999 | sūryamukhī | var. surjamukhi, surjamukhī, surjemukhi, surjemukhī; n. lit. "sun-face" or "sun-flower", a certain type of buffalo. | t.t. |
2108 | susāre | var. susāryā; n. 1) a caretaker, maid or servant. 2) a slave (K_0210_0064). | t.t. |
3094 | suvāro | n., privately held pākho land (Ingnam VS 2081: 848). | t.t. |
3056 | svāmī | [S.] a Hindu ascetic or religious teacher; specifically a senior member of a religious order, also used as a title. | t.t. |
2759 | śvetavārāhakalpa | [S.] also varāhakalpa; n. "aeon of [Viṣṇu's incarnation as] the white boar", the present cosmic cycle and first of the second half of the life of Brahmā (González-Reimann 2020). | t.t. |
2322 | syāhā | n. account book. Cash book (Adhikari 1984: 357); to what stage of account keeping it exactly refers remains uncleac. | t.t. |
752 | syāhāmohara | n. 1) seal of government offices. 2) royal document from the Sen kings (and other local kings) bearing a black seal (Krauskopff and Meyer 2000: 185; Michael 2012: 134). | t.t. |
2772 | syāḥbaji | n. puffed rice; derived from siyābaji, which literally means dry-heated beaten rice, syāḥbaji is actually dry-heated rice that is taken as a form of baji (beaten rice). | t.t. |
2911 | syā̃gī | var. syāgī; n. a straight, long, knifelike cutting tool. | t.t. |
2809 | ṭāgo/ ṭāgā | n. a measuring stick of a certain length used in land measurement in Nepal. In abbala land 8×8 ṭāgā would be one ropanī, in doyama land 9×8 ṭāgā would be one ropanī and in sima land 10×8 ṭāgā would be one ropanī (Khatiwoda, Cubelic and Michaels 2021: 123). | t.t. |
1136 | tahabila | [lw. H. taẖwīl fr. Ar.] var. tahabil, tahabīla; n. 1) account keeping of household expenditure. 2) an office for private accounts. | t.t. |
1665 | tahabiladāra | [fr. A.] var. tahavīldāra; n. cashier or treasurer of a government institution (cf. Adhikari 1984: 357; Karmacharya 2001: 326), they would "receive the money brought in and pay the fees and salaries of the officials of that office [i.e. the Kumārīcoka].“ (Edwards 1975: 108). | t.t. |
2135 | tahasila | [fr. A. taḥṣīl] n. a small administrative unit; subdivision of a district under the charge of a tahasiladāra; in British administration, in size between a district and a pragannā (Michael 2012: 134). | t.t. |
2400 | tahasila aḍḍā | office responsible for collecting dues and receiving taxes. | t.t. |
2053 | tahasiladāra | n. a collector of revenue; in charge over a tahasila. | t.t. |
2229 | tailaṅgī | adj. 1) someone coming from Telangana of modern India. 2) In the context of the Mulukī Ain, this refers to a class of Brahmins coming from Telangana. | t.t. |
764 | ṭakasāra | [fr. S.] var. ṭaksāra; n. 1) a government office that makes or mints money from various metals; a corporation that mints coins. 2) one of the four central courts (cāra adālata) located in Kathmandu, the others being Koṭiliṅga, Dhanasāra and Iṭācapalī. | t.t. |