Fwd: Manipuri name of Dysphania ambrosioides in Meitei script

[Dinesh Valke]

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

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From: Tabish <tab...@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Sep 14, 2022 at 6:55 PM
Subject: Re: Manipuri name of Dysphania ambrosioides in Meitei script
To: Dinesh Valke <dinesh...@gmail.com>

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

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On Wed, Sep 14, 2022 at 6:03 PM Dinesh Valke <dinesh...@gmail.com> 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.
• Kapil Arambam's blog - July Alteration 2.0: Kerosene.... it is English translation of Laishram Samarendra's poem called Tersing
• One article - Manipuri in Myanmar by Mutua Bahadur has tersing for kerosene ... please search tersing in comments.
• Children’s 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 <tab...@gmail.com> 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

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On Wed, Sep 14, 2022 at 9:20 AM Dinesh Valke <dinesh...@gmail.com> 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

Regards.

Dinesh