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Jokai is also called
jakoi, is not it? I think it is good Assamese word. I wonder if
the word is in other Indian languages.
That brings us to the question of the other
word; SUK. Jokai-suk, Doha-Bora
Suk, Hazarika Suk etc.
The word suk, I
could not find in Hindi or Bengali but only in Assamese. The Arabic has a
similar word suk meaning bazar. I am not sure
if the Assamese suk came from the Arabic direct. In Jorhat
we have a market called Sok Bazar. This
Sok I think is same as Arabic Suk meaning
Bazar. Although in Assamese the meaning of the word suk written
as 'corner', I find it hard to believe that Jokai Suk, Doha
Bora Suk really mean 'corner'. At one time these words might
have meant 'bazar' or 'hat'. It is possible
that the Arabic Suk has connection to the Assamese
suk. Another such interesting Assamese word is the word
pul (bridge). (Xi pulot bohi ase).
The word pul is not there in Hindi but in Bengali. Also it is
in Persian. In Assamese there many such words of Arabic origin which are not
found in other Indian languages. Incidently all the following Assamese words are
of Arabic origin, These are probably in many other Indian languages:
nogod, joma, khoros, khobor, kagoj, kolom, kitab, mosgul, hajir,
ohmok, hakim, rokom, dewai, masul, khotom, julum, khali, khalas, malik, sotur,
tarikh, son (year), nojor, harami etc
Interesting!!
Rajen Barua.
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Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2005 11:45
PM
Subject: RE: [Assam] Re: ref: my
introduction
I
want to add something in this regard ...
'Jokai' is a familiar name in Assam. If you go
through the assamese newspapers
regularly you will
come
across many places called 'Jokai' situated in different
parts of Assam.
I personally know a place called 'Jokai' ( including a village and a
big reserve forest called 'Jokai reserve forest' ), which is
around 10 Km away from Dibrugarh towards Burhidihing
river.
Every
one must be knowing the company called 'Jokai India Limited' .
C.R.Baruah
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Subject: [Assam] Re: ref: my
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Welcome Utpal. Our paths crossed before. I am sure you remember.
Congrats. again on your fine efforts.
Thanks for correcting me. I had a vague idea that there indeed is a
place called Jokaisuk, but was never clear on where it stood. Turns out it
is less than ten miles from my birth-'muluk' :-). But like Ram suggests, it
can become a generic but quintessentially kharkhowa, obscure and
humble locale, that many of us can claim our roots to. In that it is a band
of honor that we proudly wear.
Best,
c-da
At 5:36 PM +0100 8/18/05, utpal borpujari wrote:
Hi all. Just a few things:
1. "Actually Jokaisuk is a mythical 'muluk', from which both
Tilok Daktor and myself, as well as a host of other kharkhowas can and
do hail."
- Chandan-da, Jokaisuk, as far as I know (correct me if I am
wrong) is not a 'mythical muluk'. In fact, quite contrary to the image
the name gives, it is located right on the national highway between
Amguri and Sivasagar, before one reaches Gaurisagar.
2. "I thinik our journaluist new comer friend is 'bhoyote
touba touba khaise'. - RAJEN"
Bhoi khowa nai. I am actually quite excited that what I
thought was just a mere introductory mail from me, and thereby obviously
my first mail to the group, has led to such an interesting
discussion.
3. Manoj-da (of Assam Association, Delhi) and
Shantikam Hazarika : Thanks for mentioning about my winning the
national Best film critic Swarna Kamal award in 2003 and being a jury
member at the national film awards this year. This kind of constant
encouragement helps in thinking of doing something
better.
4. A request to everyone in the group: unless there is some
kind of rule about this, please delete all the previous mails (except
may be the mail to which one is replying to) while hitting the reply
button. Otherwise, this makes the mailers very voluminous, with the same
mails being appended at the bottom of each mail
repetatively.
- Utpal
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