Nepali
names 14objects 9ISO 639-3 nep
Spoken in Nepal, and the Nepali-speaking Darjeeling and Sikkim hills.
vernacular 6 · folk 2 · borrowed 6
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The sky in Nepali
| Name | Object | Meaning | Register |
|---|---|---|---|
| तारो tāro | 'Star' as a word | Turner's senses are 'star; target, mark; cynosure', and he hangs five compounds on the headword: dhrub-tāro the polestar, puchre tāro a comet, phuṭne tāro a meteor, tārā-maṇḍal a constellation, and sāt tārā the Great Bear. Four of the five are entered separately below. | borrowed |
| अकास् को केतु akās ko ketu | Comets | 'the ketu of the sky' At akās 'sky, heavens'. Turner gives a proverb at the same headword turning on the phrase. | borrowed |
| पुछ्रे तारो puchre tāro | Comets | 'the tailed star' At the adjective puchre 'possessed of a tail, tailed', whose other compound puchre bhāg is the hind portion of a goat given to the Damāi and Kāmi castes as their fee. | vernacular |
| हाँसुले पाँड़ुले hã̄sule pã̄ṛule | Figures with no secure modern identification | At the adjective hã̄sule, 'having a ring or collar — e.g. of an animal with a ring of white fur round its throat'. | vernacular |
| फुट्ने तारो phuṭne tāro | Meteors and shooting stars | 'the bursting star' At the verb phuṭnu 'to burst, break, burst out'. | vernacular |
| तिन्-तारे tin-tāre | Orion's Belt | 'the three stars' Turner defines it as the name of three particular stars that always appear in a straight line. | vernacular |
| गुज्मुजि तारा gujmuji tārā | The Pleiades | 'the bunched, clustered stars' At the adjective gujmuji 'bunched, clustered', which also gives the verbs gujmujinu 'to be bunched up' and gujmujyāunu 'to crush together'. | vernacular |
| कच्पचिया kacpaciyā | The Pleiades | — | folk |
| किर्किटि kirkiṭi | The Pleiades | Turner marks the word 'pop.' — popular, as against learned. | folk |
| भद्रा bhadrā | The lunar mansions as a system | A period during whose ascendancy it is unlucky to begin any enterprise. Turner gives the proverb: the hut is on fire — how long is Bhadrā still in ascendancy? | borrowed |
| मुल् mul | The lunar mansions as a system | Turner: the 17th or 19th nakshatra, containing eleven stars and considered unlucky. The derivative मुल्याहा mulyāhā (also mule) means 'born under the constellation mul' and, as a noun, 'an unfortunate person, an orphan'. | borrowed |
| ध्रुब्-तारो dhrub-tāro | The pole star | — | borrowed |
| सप्त-रिखि sapta-rikhi | Ursa Major (the Big Dipper) | — | borrowed |
| सात् तारा sāt tārā | Ursa Major (the Big Dipper) | 'the seven stars' | vernacular |
Sources
- R. L. Turner, A Comparative and Etymological Dictionary of the Nepali Language (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1931), s.v. तारो, p. 280 link
- R. L. Turner, A Comparative and Etymological Dictionary of the Nepali Language (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1931), s.v. अकास् को केतु, p. 3 link
- R. L. Turner, A Comparative and Etymological Dictionary of the Nepali Language (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1931), s.v. पुछ्रे तारो, p. 384 link
- R. L. Turner, A Comparative and Etymological Dictionary of the Nepali Language (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1931), s.v. हाँसुले पाँड़ुले, p. 634 link
- R. L. Turner, A Comparative and Etymological Dictionary of the Nepali Language (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1931), s.v. फुट्ने तारो, p. 407 link
- R. L. Turner, A Comparative and Etymological Dictionary of the Nepali Language (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1931), s.v. तिन्-तारे, p. 283 link
- R. L. Turner, A Comparative and Etymological Dictionary of the Nepali Language (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1931), s.v. गुज्मुजि तारा, p. 143 link
- R. L. Turner, A Comparative and Etymological Dictionary of the Nepali Language (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1931), s.v. कच्पचिया, p. 67 link
- R. L. Turner, A Comparative and Etymological Dictionary of the Nepali Language (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1931), s.v. किर्किटि, p. 93 link
- R. L. Turner, A Comparative and Etymological Dictionary of the Nepali Language (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1931), s.v. भद्रा, p. 467 link
- R. L. Turner, A Comparative and Etymological Dictionary of the Nepali Language (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1931), s.v. मुल्, p. 515 link
- R. L. Turner, A Comparative and Etymological Dictionary of the Nepali Language (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1931), s.v. ध्रुब्-तारो, p. 280 link
- R. L. Turner, A Comparative and Etymological Dictionary of the Nepali Language (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1931), s.v. सप्त-रिखि, p. 586 link
- R. L. Turner, A Comparative and Etymological Dictionary of the Nepali Language (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1931), s.v. सात् तारा, p. 280 link