Thank you very much dear Tabish for help with this name of the plant. I wish more and more that the names of plants in north-eastern languages come to be known - and as much possible in their native scripts. Challenging but satisfying work !! Regards. Dinesh
---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Tabish <[email protected]> Date: Wed, Sep 14, 2022 at 6:55 PM Subject: Re: Manipuri name of Dysphania ambrosioides in Meitei script To: Dinesh Valke <[email protected]> Dear Dinesh, Deadly research you did in a matter of an hour on this aspect! Now Kerosene fits well, as the plant names have similar allusions in Mizo and Malayalam. That is why I am continually amazed at your plant names research! Great job! *Tersing nambi* will be written as ꯇꯦꯔꯁꯤꯡ ꯅꯝꯕꯤ (pronounced as तेरसिंग नम्बी) By the way, I know Kapil Arambam and Chitra Ahanthem quite well. Cheers! Tabish ------------------------------------------- <http://www.flowersofindia.net>www.flowersofindia.net The waterhole of flower lovers On Wed, Sep 14, 2022 at 6:03 PM Dinesh Valke <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks very very much dear Tabish !! > > I am aware of the name ꯃꯣꯟꯁꯥꯥꯑꯣꯕꯤ ꯃꯥꯟꯕꯤ Monsaobi manbi from your site. > > Your guess about *tersing* for kerosene is a very great help. > तेरासिन must be one of the pronunciation for the foreign word "kerosene". > > - Tersing nambi has its own page in Manipur Medicinal Plants > <https://medicinalplants.co.in/tersing-nambi/>. > - Kapil Arambam's blog - July Alteration 2.0: Kerosene > > <https://kapilarambam.blogspot.com/2015/07/july-alteration-20-kerosene.html>.... > it is English translation of Laishram Samarendra's poem called Tersing > - One article - Manipuri in Myanmar > > <http://e-pao.net/epSubPageExtractor.asp?src=manipur.Arts_and_Culture.Mutua_Bahadur_Art_Collection.Manipuri_in_Myanmar_1> > by Mutua Bahadur has tersing for kerosene ... please search tersing in > comments. > - Children’s culture of cartoon language > <http://kanglaonline.com/2014/06/childrens-culture-of-cartoon-language/> > by Chitra Ahanthem ... please search tersing in the article > > > Thus, I think tersing nambi is okay for putting in Meitei script ... > though literal meaning may sound amusing - kerosene smelling > > Mizo name for the plant is on same lines - - *khawnvar-tui-rim-nam* ... > (khawnvar-tui = kerosene; rim-nam = smelling) > Malayalam name for the plant is *മണ്ണെണ്ണച്ചെടി* mannennachcheti ... > (kerosene plant) > > Regards. > Dinesh > > > > > On Wed, Sep 14, 2022 at 3:08 PM Tabish <[email protected]> wrote: > >> *Tersing* doesn't appear to be a correct name. Manipuri people around me >> haven't heard of a word called* tersing*. *Nambi* means smell. One guess >> is that tersing may be a distortion of kerosene - old Manipuri folks >> pronounce it as तेरासिन. So the meaning could be, something smelling like >> kerosene. The plant is anyway known to have a pungent smell. One name of >> this plant is ꯃꯣꯟꯁꯥꯥꯑꯣꯕꯤ ꯃꯥꯟꯕꯤ Monsaobi manbi >> Tabish >> ------------------------------------------- >> <http://www.flowersofindia.net>www.flowersofindia.net >> The waterhole of flower lovers >> >> >> On Wed, Sep 14, 2022 at 9:20 AM Dinesh Valke <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Dear Tabish, >>> Please help in putting the Manipuri name of Dysphania ambrosioides, >>> tersing nambi in Meitei script. >>> Reference: Encyclopedia of Medicinal Plants in Manipur >>> <http://medicinalplants.co.in/> >>> >>> Regards. >>> Dinesh >>> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "eFloraofIndia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/indiantreepix/CABSQqC2JyAqs6%3D1dhEMVpg%2B6-L%2BJvN_1fc272S81L-rjvSJt5A%40mail.gmail.com.
