Dumi dictionary : Query result

Entry: siNkho

Grammar: n.

Meaning: large wooden or stone mortar

Nepali: okhalī.

Entry: siNnɨ

Kiränti etymology: Kiränti etymology

Grammar: vt-1 siN

Meaning: ask, inquire

Nepali: sodhnu.

Entry: si:mɨtnɨ

Grammar: vt-2a si: mɨd/mɨt-mɨts/mɨs

Meaning: cause to bear fruit or to flower

Nepali: phalāunu.

Derivation: [causativized si:nɨ 'bear fruit']

Entry: si:na

Kiränti etymology: Kiränti etymology

Grammar: adv.

Meaning: night, nighttime, at night

Nepali: rāt, rātrī

Comments: cf. bɨknɨ, nulɨ, so:mna; si:na-peʔe.

Entry: si:na-peʔe

Grammar: adv.

Meaning: in the middle of the night, halfway through the night, at midnight

Nepali: madhyarāt, madhyarātrī

Derivation: [si:na 'night' + peʔe 'half']

Comments: also: si:na-tɨk-peʔe-bi (night-one-half-LOC); cf. nulɨ-peʔe.

Entry: si:nɨ

Kiränti etymology: Kiränti etymology

Grammar: vi-1 si:y/si:

Meaning: bear fruit, bear flower

Nepali: phalnu.

Entry: sirgam

Grammar: n.

Meaning: mild, slightly sour, heavy, white and crumbly cheese, fabricated by Tibetans from the milk of the caũrī gāī (cow-yak hybrid) and sold at the bajār. What the Dumi call sirgam is moist and not dry like churpī.

Derivation: [< Tibetan phyur-skam, chur-skam 'dried curds, Tibetan cottage cheese', derived from Tibetan phyur-bu, chur-ba 'fresh curds, fresh cheese' (Nep. churpī 'rockhard dried Tibetan cheese' may derive from the same source)]

Entry: SiriNpa

Grammar: n.

Meaning: Limbu

Nepali: Limbū

Comments: cf. Liʔmbɨ.

Entry: síri:mbhu

Grammar: n.

Meaning: the several tree species of genus Albizzia

Nepali: siris.

Derivation: [< -bhu 'tree']

Entry: sirɨsa

Grammar: n.

Meaning: bow

Comments: cf. mɨmstiʔ, dhanum, sirɨsa-tirɨsa.

Entry: sirɨsa-tirɨsa

Grammar: n.coll.

Meaning: bows and arrows, hunting gear.

Derivation: [sirɨsa 'arrow' + tirɨsa jingle]

Entry: sirnɨ

Kiränti etymology: Kiränti etymology

Grammar: vt-1 sir

Meaning: 1) wash 2) (with -ram 'body') bathe

Nepali: 1) dhunu; 2) nuhāunu

Comments: 2) ANa o:-ram siru I took a bath, I bathed; cf. sirsinɨ.

Entry: sirpa

Grammar: n.fem.

Meaning: youngest born (offspring or sibling)

Derivation: [in Sasarkā only]

Comments: cf. sibi, sibise, sibirpa.

Entry: sirsɨnɨ

Grammar: vr.non-erg.

Meaning: to wash up, e.g. one's face, hands or legs, but not one's whole body

Nepali: nuhāunu.

Derivation: [< sirnɨ 'wash']

Comments: cf. sirnɨ vt-1 (2)

Entry: sisambhu

Grammar: n.

Meaning: the tree Engelhardtia spicata

Nepali: mahuvā.

Derivation: [-bhu 'tree']

Entry: sisa:mro:

Comments: vide dha:mro: sisa:mro:.

Entry: sɨ

Kiränti etymology: Kiränti etymology

Grammar: n.

Meaning: wood, stick, log, lumber, timber, firewood; tree

Nepali: lakaḍī, dāurā, rukh, kāṭh.

Entry: sɨlnɨ

Kiränti etymology: Kiränti etymology

Grammar: vt-1 sɨl

Meaning: hide, conceal

Nepali: lukāunu.

Entry: sɨmar

Kiränti etymology: Kiränti etymology

Grammar: n.

Meaning: illness, disease, fever (collocates with lopnɨ vt-3 seize, e.g. AN sɨmarʔa aluphǝm I have been stricken by illness)

Nepali: bethā.

Entry: sɨmdinna

Kiränti etymology: Kiränti etymology

Grammar: adv.

Meaning: the day after the day after tomorrow

Nepali: nikarsi

Derivation: [sɨm < Tibeto-Burman *g-sum 'three' (Benedict 1972: 94); na < na:m sun; in Sasarkā: sumdinna ]

Comments: cf. amnɨ, aselma, asina, atina, attha:mkuna, lɨkdinna, na:mnɨ.