ID | Word | Notes | Type |
2846 | tilaharī | var. tīlaharī; n. a partic. kind of big gold ornament worn on a pote by married women. | t.t. |
1859 | tilaka | [S.] n. blessing mark on the forehead. | t.t. |
2810 | tilaṅgā | n. soldier, regular troops. | t.t. |
2952 | ṭina | [fr. E. tin] var. ṭeṃ; n. tin. | t.t. |
2218 | Tīna-Liṅga-Jaisī | n. a Jaisi whose mother was previously married to three other men (cp. Höfer 2004: 89). Among other criteria, Jaisis were hierarchized according to the number of former husbands of the mother (cf. MA-54 115.2–4). | t.t. |
2083 | tirjā | n. a certificate empowering jāgiradāras to collect the rent from their land (Adhikari 1984: 357; M.C. Regmi 1978: 164 ; cf. M.C. Regmi 1999a: 235). | t.t. |
2482 | tithi | [S.] n. lunar day (the increase of the longitudinal angle between the Moon and the Sun by 12°) that lasts between appr. 19 and 26 hours. | t.t. |
808 | toḍā | n. 1) a leather bag of money (Adhikari 1984: 358). 2) a bag to keep money. 3) a chain of gold or silver attached around the edge of a pagarī worn by the jāgiradāras during the Rāṇā regime. 4) the money dispatched to the mulukīkhānā by the aḍḍās in the mofussil (Parājulī 2010: 576).
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2763 | toka | var. tok; n. decision, sanction. | t.t. |
2764 | toka sadara | var. toka sadar, tok sadar: a written ratification of a decision, order, sanction or directive; see also toka. | t.t. |
810 | tolā | n. a unit of weight and standard measure for gold and silver comprising of 100 or 96 rati, 10 or 12 māsās and being 1/80th of a sera; the actual weight differed according to place and time, as weight of the Bombay or Sicca Rupee between 11.599–11.642; as standardised in 1833 in British India as 180 troy grains (11.663 8038 grams). | t.t. |
1488 | ṭola | [fr. New. tvāḥ/tvāla, Old New. tvāra] n. a quarter of a town or village; a part of a town inhabited by persons often belonging to the same community or caste; the distinguishing feature being a separate shrine of Ganedyaḥ/Gaṇeśa (Pant and Funo 2003). | t.t. |
2278 | topakhānā | n. a department dealing with and keeping munitions, started by Jaṅga Bahādura Rāṇā. It was later on turned into a section (phā̃ṭa) under the Jaṅgī Bandobasta by Candra Śamśera (cf. Agrawal 1976: 66). | t.t. |
2936 | topī | var. topi; n. a hat, cap; cap of a cartridge. | t.t. |
2688 | toraṇa / torana | var. toraṇ, toran; n. 1) (ornamented) arched gateway. 2) festoon of flowers, leaves and colored cloth hung over gates and on walls on festive occasions. | t.t. |
1128 | tosākhānā | var. tośākhāna, tośākhānā; n. royal treasury, state treasury; “central royal treasury, located in Kathmandu in the royal palace“ (Pant and Pierce 1989: 94); "King's household, wardrobe, etc.; also the name of the department of expenditure" (Kumar 1967: 168). See also kausī tosākhānā. | t.t. |
2993 | tripāsā | var. trīpāsā; n. a dice. | t.t. |
2690 | ṭukunī | var. tukunī; n. a volumetric and weight unit equal to a half mānā. | t.t. |
2647 | tulādhara | [S.] n. a Newar Buddhist subcaste of the Urāy. | t.t. |
2621 | tumbā | n. kind of calabash. | t.t. |