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 smellingMizo 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.DineshOn 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 manbiTabishOn 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 ManipurRegards.Dinesh