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