Kurukh
names 9objects 9ISO 639-3 kru
Spoken in Chota Nagpur plateau (Oraon country), Jharkhand.
tribal 9
See the Kurukh sky on the chart →
The sky in Kurukh
| Name | Object | Meaning | Register |
|---|---|---|---|
| bīnkō | 'Star' as a word | star | tribal |
| calkī bīnkō; jhāl-bīnkō, jhālī-bīnkō | Comets | the broom star The appearance of a comet is read as an omen: 'a comet has appeared; we may have this year a famine as well as a plenteous crop.' | tribal |
| mugrā (sense 2) | Figures with no secure modern identification | a mallet | tribal |
| chir'u bīnkō; cherkā bīnkō | Meteors and shooting stars | — | tribal |
| ugtā-pagṛī bīnkō | Orion's Belt | the plough constellation | tribal |
| gāy-chour bīnkō | The Milky Way | the cattle-track constellation chour is the broad way for the cattle, from the skirts of the village up to the main road. | tribal |
| lohrā-capuā bīnkō; capuā bīnkō; pārkī bīnkō | The Pleiades | the blacksmith's-bellows constellation | tribal |
| khaṭī-pāwā bīnkō (the three outside stars: ḍhālbar) | Ursa Major (the Big Dipper) | the cot-feet constellation; thieves The quadrangle is the bed; the three stars outside it are ḍhālbar, thieves, after the bedstead. | tribal |
| bijj-bīnkō (morning); ḍhurti-bīnkō (evening); bhurkā | Venus as morning star | the dawn star; the dusk star | tribal |
Sources
- Grignard, An Oraon-English Dictionary (1924), s.v. bīnkō, p. 85 link
- Grignard, An Oraon-English Dictionary (1924), s.v. calkī, p. 123; s.v. bīnkō, p. 85 link
- Grignard, An Oraon-English Dictionary (1924), s.v. mugrā, sense 2 link
- Grignard, An Oraon-English Dictionary (1924), s.v. chir'u, p. 164; s.v. bīnkō, p. 85 link
- Grignard, An Oraon-English Dictionary (1924), s.v. ugtā, p. 684; also s.v. bīnkō, p. 85 link
- Grignard, An Oraon-English Dictionary (1924), s.v. gāy, p. 256; s.v. chour, p. 166 link
- Grignard, An Oraon-English Dictionary (1924), s.v. bīnkō, p. 85; s.v. capuā, p. 128; s.v. lohrā, p. 465 link
- Grignard, An Oraon-English Dictionary (1924), s.v. khaṭī, p. 415 (thief: s.v. ḍhālbās, p. 403) link
- Grignard, An Oraon-English Dictionary (1924), s.v. bijj-bīnkō, p. 82; s.v. bhurkā, p. 114; s.v. bīnkō, p. 85 link