Limbu dictionary : Query result

Entry: dzhan

Grammar: adv.

Meaning: even more, yet more so.

Derivation: [< Nep. jhan]

Entry: hammaʔ, -hand-/-han-

Comments: vide hɔmmaʔ.

Entry: haN

Kiranti etymology: Kiranti etymology

Grammar: n.

Meaning: king.

Entry: haNba:la:

Grammar: n.

Meaning: the olden times when the Limbu kings still reigned over Limbuvān.

Derivation: [haN king + ba:la: < Nep. pālā period, era]

Entry: haNga

Grammar: n.

Meaning: branch

Derivation: [< Nep. ha_gā]

Comments: vide siNsaraʔl.

Entry: haNma

Grammar: n.

Meaning: butterfly

Comments: cf. cila:pphe:pma.

Entry: haNma

Grammar: n.

Meaning: queen.

Derivation: [< haN king]

Entry: haNmaʔ, -haN-

Kiranti etymology: Kiranti etymology

Grammar: vt.

Meaning: send

Comments: (patient: object sent; third person patient only); cf. hakmaʔ, paNmaʔ.

Entry: haNmaʔ, -haNs-/-haN-

Kiranti etymology: Kiranti etymology

Grammar: vi.

Meaning: wait.

Entry: haNsaʔ

Grammar: n.

Meaning: prince.

Derivation: [haN king + saʔ child, offspring]

Entry: haNwa

Grammar: n.

Meaning: water brought to a boil for cooking rice

Derivation: [haNwamaʔ be hot, *wa water]

Comments: khɔppe:ʔo: tɔk tho:kmaʔre la:gi cwaʔl yuNm: bo:ksɛ, me:nni:ʔ cwaʔl yuN, e:, me:nni:ʔ khɛN cwaʔlin haNwa mɛmɛttu. In order to cook rice, you have to put in the pot, don't you? There's water [in it], isn't thereʔ They call that water haNwa.

Entry: haNwakumaʔ, haNwa-kus-/haNwa-ku-

Grammar: vt.imp.

Meaning: feel warm, feel hot

Comments: khɛnɛʔ haNwakɛgusɛi:? Are you hot?; anga haNwakusaN I'm warm; cf. haNwamaʔ.

Entry: haNwamaʔ, haN-was-/haN-wa-

Kiranti etymology: Kiranti etymology

Grammar: vi.

Meaning: be hot (ambient, environmental temperature); be the hot season

Comments: cf. haNwa- kumaʔ, ko:maʔ, le:kmaʔ, mɔkmaʔ, ya:mmaʔ, yɛmmaʔ.

Entry: kɔtna:nhaN

Grammar: adv.

Meaning: to this side

Derivation: [kɔtna hither + *nahaN direction]

Comments: na:nhaN kɔtna:nhaN on this side and that, next to each other, juxtaposed.

Entry: kubhaN kubhaN

Grammar: adv.

Meaning: piled on top of each other, in a heap, in a pile

Comments: kubhaN kubhaN yuksuN I've put it all in one pile.

Entry: namdhanahaN

Grammar: 1) n. 2) adv.

Meaning: 1) west; 2) in the west, westward.

Derivation: [namdha west + *nahaN direction]

Entry: naNgɛtnahaN

Grammar: 1) n. 2) adv.

Meaning: 1) east; 2) in the east, eastward.

Derivation: [nam sun + kɛt < kɛpmaʔ arrive + *nahaN direction]

Entry: na:ndhaN, na:ndaN

Grammar: n.

Meaning: 1) direction; 2) opposite side, far side.

Derivation: [< *nahaN- direction]

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