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Aari |
Small saw which is operated by single person |
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Agalmaka/Miamua/Rongchugala/Ahia |
Religious festivals |
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Anar |
Pomegranate (a tropical fruit with many seeds), Punica granatum |
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Angoori |
A grape wine, Vitis spp. |
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Angora |
Type of goat |
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Aonla |
Emblica Officinalis |
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Arbi |
Colocasia species |
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Bajagun |
Mucuna prurita (a weed for controlling rat menace) |
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Baltoi |
A vessel used for distillating wine from fermented fruits |
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Baraghar |
Method for constructing small bed in the fields for irrigation purpose |
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Barter system |
A system in which purchase and sale of animals, farm produce and goods is based on exhange basis |
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Basuti |
Adhatoda vasica (a medicinal plant) |
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Batauva |
Cissampelos pareira |
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Bathu |
A leafy vegetable, Chenopodium album |
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Baurh |
First floor of traditional hilly houses |
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Behla |
Sharp edged axe used for separation of chilgoza seeds from its cones |
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Belcha |
Spade |
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Beli/Belly |
A multipurpose tree used for fuel, agricultural implements, medicine, etc. |
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Behmi |
Wild almond |
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Ber |
Zizypus mauritiana (an important fruit tree) |
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Berka |
Threshing pole |
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Beul |
Grewia optiva |
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Bhains |
Salix tetrasperma |
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Bhang |
Cannabis sativa, a multipurpose narcotic plant |
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Bharal |
Animal found in cold desert of Himachal Pradesh |
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Bhera |
Indigenous medicinal plant, Terminalia chebula |
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Bileha |
Pick axe |
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Bori |
Sack (Bag) |
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Buckwheat |
Fagopyrum specie whose grains are used as a food |
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Bukarien |
Sun dried slices of unripened mangoes, Mangifera indica |
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Chabbal |
Jumper |
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Chaggar |
A white stone used for curing paralysis |
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Chagwal |
Spade |
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Chakkala-Belan |
Rolling pin and board used for making chapatis |
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Chakki |
Hand mill |
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Chaksa |
Richest manure which comprises human exereta and animal bones |
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Chalta |
A big special vessel made of brass used for preparing steam cooked cake of maize (Zea mays) and barley (Hordium vulgare) |
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Changer |
Bamboo (Dendrocalamus spp.) containers used for drying food items |
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Changpass |
Changra goats (type of goats) owner |
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Changthang |
Name of place |
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Cheenee |
A millet crop, Panicum miliaceum |
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Chhang/Ghanti |
Alcoholic drink made from rice, Avena saliva starch |
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Chhini |
Chisel |
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Chikri |
Khilna |
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Chilgoza |
Seeds of Pinus gerardiana, which considered as valuable dry fruit |
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Chillowane |
Schima wallichii |
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Chirpine |
Pinus roxburghii |
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Chola |
A woollen dress |
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Chukor |
Partrage found in cold deserts of Himachal Pradesh |
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Chulai |
Leafy vegetable (Amaranthus viridis) |
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Chuli |
Prunus armenica, wild apricot |
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Chullah |
A fire place for cooking |
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Chum |
Cross breed of yak and cow used for milk |
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Chutsa |
Chisel |
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Cowpea |
Fodder grass, Phaseolus vulgaris |
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Daach |
Big sickle |
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Dachi |
Sickle |
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Dan |
Hammer |
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Dandal/Danthal |
Harrow |
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Darant/Darat |
Big sickle |
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Daranti/Darati |
Sickle |
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Darauntha |
A deodar (Cedrus deodara) wood container for storing grains |
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Ddah |
A bamboo (Dendrocalamus spp.) sticks |
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Demo |
Animal used for ploughing and transportation |
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Deodar |
Cedrus deodara, timber yielding species of Himalayan forests |
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Desi |
Indigenous/local |
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Dhan |
Sheep and goats wealth |
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Dhar |
High mountains |
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Dhars |
High mountain peaks |
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Dhoonu |
Wild onion type, Allium cepa |
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Diggi |
Digout structure to store rain water |
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Do chu |
Crop ready for harvest |
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Dokas |
Grazing animal shelter |
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Dora |
Rope tied at the waist by both men and women |
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Dorati/Dranti |
Sickle |
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Draft/Drant |
Big sickle |
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Dzo/Dzoma |
Milk producing animals |
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Dzos |
Animal used for ploughing |
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Gaddis |
Semi-nomedic tribals of Kangra and Chamba districts of HP |
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Gainti |
Pick axe |
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Galgal |
A fruit of citrus (Citrus pseudolimon) family |
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Gandasa |
Sharp blade fitted to wooden handle |
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Gandhala |
Murraya koenigii |
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Garr dena |
Process for ripen the crop |
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Garr dena |
Process of stacking millet grains |
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Gep chu |
Seed setting |
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Ghasni |
Grass land |
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Ghee |
Fats made from vegetable and animal's milk |
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Ghoom |
Hammer |
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Ghors |
Stored grass heap |
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Gur/shakkar |
Crude sugar |
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Gyama |
Harrow |
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Hal |
Wooden plough |
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Halod |
An agricultural operation through ploughing carried out in kharif crops particularly for thinning of the crop and sowing of pulses as intercrop |
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Hathodi |
Iron Hammer |
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Havan |
A religious ceremony |
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Heeng |
Asafoetida spp. (dried exudate) |
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Hukka |
Device for smoking tobacco |
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Jalga |
A perennial wild spice plant, Phytolaca acinosa |
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Jathugza |
Sharp blade fitted to wooden handle |
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Jawanlari |
Burning grass |
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Jeth |
Summer month |
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Jhabbal |
Jumper/Crowbar |
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Jhhamb |
Spade |
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Jhong |
Yoke |
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Jhontu |
Small axe |
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Jhuming |
Shifting cultivation |
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Joda/Joom/Jungla |
Yoke (Farming implement used for ploughing and planking with bulls) |
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Jonks |
Leechs |
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Jorah/Jorah |
Leveller |
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Kachnar |
Bahaunia variegata |
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Kail |
Pinus wallichiana (Blue pine) |
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Kaimal |
Mallotus philipinensis |
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Klam/Dambu |
Grafting operation used in horticultural crops |
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Kalijiri |
Centratherum antheminticum |
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Kamoli |
Small wool pack |
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Kanda |
Highest point where cultivable lands are found above the village |
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Kandas |
Highest point of cultivation in a village |
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Kangoo |
Comb for combing wood |
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Karnu |
A local tree |
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Karolari |
Saw |
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Kasi |
Hoe |
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Kath |
Pyrus pashia |
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Katha |
Acacia catechu, Commercial product of khair tree |
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Kera |
Large sieve |
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Khads |
Water streams |
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Khair |
Acacia catechu |
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Khaliyan |
Courtyard or a small ground used for threshing their field crops |
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Kharif |
Crop season from May-June to Oct.- Nov., main crops of this season are maize, paddy, pulses etc. |
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Kharji |
Small axe |
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Khasipine |
Pinus kesia |
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Kassi |
Hoe |
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Khati |
Dugout structure to store rain water |
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Khatti |
Ginger (Zingiber officinalis) storage pits |
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Khawaja |
Diety |
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Khejri |
A multipurpose nitrogen fixing tree (Prosopis cineraria) |
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Khet |
Fields |
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Khirak |
Celtis australis |
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Kholang |
Threshing floor |
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Khot |
Hand hoe |
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Khurda |
Animal foot disease |
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Khurpa/Khurpi |
Hand hoe |
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Khus |
Grass (Vitivera gigentica) |
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Kikar |
Acacia nilotica |
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Kilni |
Khilna |
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Kilta |
A wooden container |
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Kimze |
Cattle |
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Kodo |
A millet crop, Paspalum serobiculatum |
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Kongni |
Millet, Setaria italica |
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Kudal/Kudali |
Hoe |
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Kuhal/Kuhl |
Small water channel used for irrigation purposes |
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Kuldebta |
Village deity |
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Kulhadu |
Small axe |
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Kuljana |
Type of vine |
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Kundli |
Stacked paddy bundles |
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Kunish |
Alnus spp. |
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Kutcha |
Mud structure |
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Kuth |
Saussurea lappa, a commercial cash crop |
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Lahanga/Pattee |
Long woollen dress |
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Until |
Broad leaved fodder (Herb) |
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Lota |
Container generally used for drinking water and watering plants |
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Mach/Maida |
Leveller |
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Maddim |
A plain wooden structure used for levelling the ploughed lands |
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Mahhash |
A cowdung storing pit |
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Mahlash |
Fermenting vat or bottle placed in cow dung pit |
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Mahopar |
Edible fungus |
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Mahotar/dhingri/guchhi |
Edible fungus |
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Maina |
Name of bird |
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Makudi |
Small axe |
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Malundi |
Shepherds |
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Mandal |
Millet grain |
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Mandal/sonk |
A millet crop |
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Mash |
Leguminous crop used as pulse (Vigna radiata) |
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Masoor |
Mustard (Lense esculanta) |
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Masur |
Leguminous crop used as pulse (Lense esculanta) |
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Matilari |
Name of bird |
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Meryana |
Ulmus leviegata |
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Methi |
Trigonella foenum graecum, Fenugreek (important spice) |
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Miar Nallah |
A place in Lahaul part of Lahaul & Spiti |
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Mint/Pudina |
Mint (Mentha spp.) |
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Moi |
Leveller |
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Moong |
Leguminous crop used as pulse (Vigna mungo) |
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Moori |
Concentrated alcoholic drink |
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Mug |
Container used for watering plants |
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Nagal |
Wooden plough |
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Nallah/Nalla/Nallaha |
A mini water stream |
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Naryal |
Big sickle |
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Navratras |
A set of auspicious nine days in Hindu religion |
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Nayan |
Animal found in cold deserts of Himachal Pradesh |
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Neem |
Azadirachta indica |
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Nialu |
Name of bird |
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Nihani |
Chisel |
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Non chu |
Flowering |
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Oei/Ohi |
Albizia chinensis |
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Okthan |
Hoe |
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Oven |
Grain storage room |
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Pabo |
High pasture |
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Padawata |
.Hammer |
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Pahra |
A small bundle of maize plants made after harvesting the crop |
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Pala |
Turn-wise distribution of water |
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Panaudi |
A container (bigger than sup/chhaj) made up of bamboo sticks used for winnowing grains on large scale |
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Pang |
Type of grass |
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Papiha |
Name of bird |
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Pashimna goat |
A special type of goat which produced very soft wool |
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Pattu |
A woollen blanket |
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Peri/Pedu |
Bamboo container |
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Phafra/Phaphra |
Buckwheat (Phagopyrum spp.) |
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Phanani |
A bow shaped device used for combing wool |
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Phat |
Sack (Bag) |
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Phawara |
Spade |
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Phorwa |
Spade |
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Pobo |
High pastures |
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Podu |
Shifting cultivation |
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Poola |
Bundle of grass |
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Pooli/poola |
Harvested paddy bundle |
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Puhal |
A shephard |
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Punjali |
Yoke |
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Purih/Purah |
Containers made up of leaves |
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Rabi crop |
Crops like wheat, mustard etc. grown during the months of Oct.-Nov. to April-May |
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Rajmash |
A pulse crop (Phaseolus vulgaris) |
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Rango |
Highest point where cultivable lands are found above the village |
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Ranthak |
Hand mill |
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Rashi |
Dilute alcoholic drink |
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Rushans |
Earthen pots |
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Rutasa |
Sharp blade fitted to wooden handle |
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Safeda |
Eucalyptus spp. |
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Sak chu |
Growing |
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Sarkanda grass |
A wild growing long grass commonly used for thatching houses and making bee hives (Saccharum spontaneous) |
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Sarson |
Mustard (Brassica compastris) |
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Shangma stone |
A bluish coloured water soluble stone with weedicide properties |
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Sheen |
Winnower |
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Shennang |
Cultivable lands below the village |
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Shisham |
Dalbergia sisoo |
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Singaitoo |
Traditional song |
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Singaitoo |
A local song |
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Situ |
A mango variety (Mangifera spp.) |
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Sling & karban |
Traditional devices for scaring birds and stray animals |
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Sonk |
Millet grain |
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Sonth |
Wild almond {Prunus spp.) |
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Soolini Mela |
Local fair of Soolini deity |
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Soop |
Winnower |
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Sora |
Sickle |
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Spang |
Type of grass |
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Sua |
Wooden pin |
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Suhaga |
A plain wooden structure used for levelling the ploughed fields |
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Sup/Chhaj |
Light wooden structure used for grain winnowing |
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Surmn |
Iron hook provided with wooded handle |
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Taklu |
A special spindle device |
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Talent |
A pyramid shaped structure made for storing dry grass |
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Tambaku |
Tobacco (Nicotiana tobaccum) |
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Tatihari |
Name of bird |
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Ten |
Small axe |
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Thali |
Plate |
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Thobi |
Cloth made from yaks hair |
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Thoras |
A shade tree adjoining to small streams |
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Thoug |
Wooden plough |
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Thowa/Ud |
Hammer |
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Thua/Zhumb |
Harvested stacks/bundles of maize at one place from which later on cobs are separated |
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Tillbohara |
Dragan fly |
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Titar |
Partridge |
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Tokhara |
A small wooden structure used for digging the soil |
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Tokhre |
A wooden structure used in Ladakh area for digging the soil to facilitate horizontal spread of roots of vegetable crops |
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Tokra |
A small wooden container |
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Tokru |
A wooden container |
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Tol chu |
Germination |
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Toll |
A pyramid shaped structure used for storing dry grass |
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Toon |
Toona ciliata |
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Toot |
Moms alba |
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Tor |
A multiple wild plant, Bauhinia vahilii |
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Trakar |
Pastures |
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Urd |
Leguminous crop, Vigna radiata |
|
Urma |
Device made from horns of animals and used for irrigation in initial stage of crop |
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Utis |
Alnus nepalensis |
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Yara |
Large sieve |
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Zabbal |
Jumper |
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Zings |
Water pond |
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Zira |
Cumin (important spice) |
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Zongfa |
Winnower |
