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Thanks. I was also looking at my Hindi dictionary
where I did not find the word pul. But it is there in Bengali.
I did not know that in Hindi they use the wrod though. What about the Assamese
word hat (bazar).? It is a very typical word in Assamese.
(Jorhat, Borhat, etc). . Do they use it in Hindi. I see it in
Bengali dictionary?.
Rajen Barua
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Sent: Friday, August 19, 2005 1:15
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Subject: Re: [Assam] Re: ref: my
introduction
Thats really interesting! But one thing confused me.
"The word pul is not there in
Hindi but in Bengali."
All my Hindi speaking friends and even people giving
road directions when u enquire about locations in North
India call the bridge "PUL". So, I've consulted the hindi dictionary. And
infact the word "PUL" for bridge is not there. The correct word is "Setu".
Maybe they use the arabic (urdu) word "pul" colloquially.
Interesting.
Muktikam Phukan
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). Th! e 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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