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Chandan:
I think that is what it is and we should
revise the Assamese Dictionaries to include the meaning 'suburi'. At present
some dictionaries carry the meaning, 'gawor ek khondo' etc. But I think
'suburi' is a more meaningful word for 'suk'. Now wher does the word 'suburi'
comes from.
More when we continue after this
comercial break.
Rajen
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Sent: Friday, August 19, 2005 8:29
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Subject: Re: [Assam] Re: ref: my
introduction
If I am not mistaken, 'suk' is synonymous with 'suburi'
At 12:57 AM -0500 8/19/05, Barua25 wrote:
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
introduction
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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