390 entries found starting with "A"
- Arngan (adj) - a form or style of cooking chicken (see also ‘ar awm’)
- Arpui (n) - hen
- Arpui mei (phrase) - a comparison of a more or less equal in all respect, united in thoughts and ideas or opinion
- Arpui mit insîm (phrase) - to half-close the eye like the way a hen does; to pretend not seeing
- Arpui nêne ngên (phrase) - to demand or plead greedy and rapaciously
- Arpui nene sem (phrase) - to divide ones belonging or property to the point where there is nothing left for oneself
- Arrîl (n) - a fully grown up chicken cage, a fowl house (usually built on the entrance and lower slope side of a Hmar house)
- Arsuktul (n) - killing of chicken by poor families who could not afford a four-legged animal as sacrifice and prayer for the soul of the death of their family members inside their house. The killed chicken is hanged upside down and so is the term
- Arsuktul hlaw zo loa thi (phrase) - a death under extreme poverty (with a hint of ‘arsuktul’)
- Arte (n) - chicken
- Arte lukawk (v) - to lose everything, to lose whatever one possesses, everything gone
- Arte thia thi (v) - a death with none to look after or care
- Arthakzawl (n) - a particular good flat place near Senvon village in Manipur where fowls are kept or shifted during ‘Khawser’ or a Pre-Christian ritual in which no noise or sound is to be made by men or animals. During early Christian days, some non-Hmar dialect using leaders of the Church surreptitiously gathered at this place in one dark night to make a plan to do away the use of Hmar dialect in the Church. The very spot was mysteriously shaken to shreds after some time by nature and is no more a flat surface
- Arthatzawl (n) - a particular good flat place near Senvon village in Manipur use as ‘bawlhmun’ in pre-christian era where fowls are killed as a sacrifice
- Artikul (n) - article