Marwari Dictionary

A
Aachho - good
Aabh - sky
Aago - away, far
Aagal - wooden rod to fasten the leaves of a door
Aaglo - foremost
Aagunch - advance
Aajyo () - request to come
Aakdo - medicinal shrub plant with big leaves and bad odour botanical
name Callotropis procera
Aakhar - word
Aambli - tamarind
Aambo - mango
Aa.ngi - traditional blouse worn by ladies
Aangli - finger
Aa'ni

' - windstorm, blind woman

Aank - numbers
Aakro - heavy

Aankharli - a song sung when the husband of daughter comes first time
to his in-laws, eye
Aankharliyan - eyes
Aa'ndho ' - blind man
Aantro - distance, interval
Aanwati - future
Aapanon - ours
Aavaili - will come (female)
Aavaili - will come (male)
Aavjo - request to come
Aavno - to come
Aba'r ' - very recently, now
Adao - land kept for grazing of animals
Adane - kept on mortgage
Aik - one
Ai - these
Algo - away, far
Anan sanan - distinguishing feature
Anjanyau - un-known
Anhui - not happened

Ar - and
Ardano - call of cattle
Athai - here
Athwado - food material left in dish

B
Baachhi - Young cow
Baagar - bundles of bajra (Poola) stacked properly for future use
Baal - to burn, air, hair
Baan - Ganesha pujan ceremony at the beginning of a marriage
Baanch - to read
Baan'ka ' - theirs
Baasedo - festival in which people worship "Sheetla Mata," the goddess of
small-pox on Sheetla Ashtama day; People don't cook any food and would eat
the food made of earlier day. They make seven dishes, the day before and
then do pooja and they eat those the whole day. Small pox is supposed to be
caused by heat, that is the myth behind this festival.
Baante - lease, batai of a land
Baanth-bojha - - same as 'sood'
Baarai - outside
Baaro kado - to take one turn of taking water from a well
Babo - Tau, father's elder brother

Bachyoda - left out, balance

Badali - cloud
Badera - ancestors
Badhawo - Song sung when daughter is sent to sasural (in-laws)
Badhnon - to grow
Badka - ancestors
Badkulya - round dish type of items made from cow dung with hole at
centre for garland making
Bai - they
Baidhaki - Pregnant young cow
Bain - Sister
Bajraq - a fatal weapon, the thunderbolt of Indra
Bajro - a desert cerial crop which is most common food grain
Baju Bandh - armlet
Balaji - Lord Hanuman
Balam - husband, Lover
Balyee - silly woman (called with love)
Balyo - silly man (called with love)
Balno - to burn
Bangari - golden bangles

Baman - brahman
Banithani - ladies properly dressed with appropriate makeup and
ornaments
Banko - bent
Bans - foul smell, bamboo
Baonli - plant with botanical name Acacia jacquemontii used as fodder and
its roots used as dying material for leather
Barai kado - to take out
Bari - Window
Barno - Gate
Bapji - A respectful words like His highness, Sir.
Bapkano - silly man (with a bad taste)
Bardi - a woolen blanket made of black and white wool in check pattern
Bark - fatigue and stress in muscles due to excessive work
Baru - weed resembling bajra crop which is a good fodder for cows
Baste - fire
Batewoo - guest
Bathai - there
Batko - an utensil of bronze metal in the shape of a middle plate with
round corners, it is also the term for money offered as gift

Baulai - sector in a residential campus used to dry up the gobar of cattle

and prepare thepadi etc
Bavji - God,
Bawli - mad (woman)
Bawlo - mad (man)
Bawalyo - Babool
Bayee - sister
Beed - grazing land
Beejno - sowing seeds
Beejnon - a hand fan
Beejoliyo - a bag made of cloth to keep the seeds for sowing by a
farmer in field
Been - bridegroom
Beend - bridegroom
Beendni - bride
Beeri - Sister
Beero - Brother
Bekario - herbal plant with botanical name Indigofera cordifolia which is
a good fodder for camel
Bekaro - sand
Bero - information, to know

Besh - pair of chunadi and ghagra gifted to ladies

Bhaan - sister
Bhaanej - sister's son
Bhaat - also called Mayero, maternal uncles bring gifts for the Mother,
Cooked rice.
Bhaant - Verity
Bhankadi - a grass with spiny fruits very much liked by camel as a feed
and having medicinal values for curing stones
Bhapan - eyelash
Bhar - a long radiating sand dune found in desert which are formed due to
piling up of shifting sand
Bharauti - headload of grass for feeding cattle
Bharautiyo - headload of fuel for burning
Bharoont - a good fodder grass with spiny flowers palatable by animals,
botanical name-Cenchrus setigerus
Bhartar - husband
Bhaut - very much, plenty of things
Bhayli - female friend
Bhaylo - male friend
Bhayo - Brother
Bhavat - brother's wife, bhabhi

Bheench - to press
Bheent - wall
Bheli - a compacted mass of gur
Bheli - collected, together
Bhojai - brother's wife, bhabhi
Bhoowa
- Paternal aunt
Bhopa - a community that earns their living through singing songs of heroic
persons depicted on phads made of canvas
Bhotar - next birth
Bhuari - a broom stick
Bhujano - erase
Bilia - plastic or ivory bangles
Bilowano - churning milk
Binani - wife, groom
Birakha - rain
Bobo - breast of female
Bodo - old, a weak boy
Bolo - very much, deaf
Borlo - ornament put on forehead by ladies
Bui - a herbal plant with white flowers and leathery leaves. It is used a a
medicine for burns and stomach pain, botanical name Aerva tomentosa

Byagi - delivery of female animal

Byav - marriage

C
Chaak - ceremony to worship the wheel of kumhar at the time of marriage
of a boy or girl
Chaav - like
Chanani - light of moon, tent put in functions, coloured overhead tent
Charko - taste mix of salt and chilly
Charo - fodder
Chau - lower iron part of plaugh
Chaubaro - first floor room, open from all sides
Chaudai-dhadai - - in day light
Chaudhar - justice
Chaudhary - village head, one who does justice
Chaumaso - rainy season
Cheedo - difficult to bite
Cheel - kite
Cheela - railway track, rajasthani dosa
Cheelgadi - aeroplane
Chhak - brunch of a farmer

Chhalo(Chhaj) - an untensil made of primarly sticks used to sort wout

grain
Chhana - dried cow dung
Chhanon hidden
Chhanta - rain-drops
Chhav - animal in heat
Chhinki - a net made of rope put on mouth of an animal to prevent
grazing
Chhori - girl
Chhoro - boy
Chhuchhak - a ceremony performed by maternal side after a month of his
birth
Chintho - to crush
Chirkali - bird, house sparrow
Chirmarat - pinching
Chokha - Rice, good looking
Chokhi - good looking
Chokho - good
Choliyo - shirt
Choon - flaur

Choondi - traditional Chunni made of bandhej, brother would bring this as

a gift for sister in bhat (Mayro) at marriage of her child
Choongyo - lost the way
Chotiyo - a woolen wear used by children to cover the body
Choutho - village common place, chaupal
Chunadi - rajasthani print audhana
Chunyodi - elected
Chyarankani - in all sides

D
Daam - value
Daangara - cattle
Daankhala - straw
Daat - utensils, clothes, ornaments etc offered to bridegroom and his
relatives by bride side in marriage
Daayjo - dowry
Dadi - grandmother
Dado - grandfather
Dairi - a field with flat land in arid areas

Dantali - impliment to level ground

Dalidar - poor
Dana - grains
Dawdi - term used to address a female with affection
Dedo-dedo - - not straight, oblique, at a distance
Deel - body
Deesawar - foreign
Deeval - white ants
Devar - younger brother of husband
Derani - wife of husband's younger brother
Dhabalo - traditional petticoat made of wool, decorated with kasheeda and
lawan
Dhale - falling down
Dhamal - falgun folk songs
Dhani - small hamlet of one or a few houses
Dhapgyo - satisfied
Dharo - room used for storage of fodder for animals
Dharo - barter
Dharo - loot
Dharo - a long radiating sand dune found in desert which are formed due
to piling up of shifting sand

Dhaulo - white
Dhavlo - white
Dhedh - alternate name of harijan
Dhinganon - forcibly
Dhiro - twigs of jhadberi cut and used for fodder or fencing
Dholi - drum beater
Dholo - traditional hemi-spherical ceiling
Dhoongari - heap of gwar pods
Dhuaro - a brass metal pitcher to milk cow
Dhuro - send
Dhunga - rectal hips
Dhyangi - daily wages
Dhyankyo - farm labour
Dinchhipe - sunset
Dindhhle - sunset
Dinuge - sunrise
Doka - straw of bajra
Dol - a big container made of tin
Doliyo - a small container
Do'ro ' - difficulty

Dungari - hillock
Dyorani - wife of husband's younger brother
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F
Fad - story of Pabuji depicted on canvas
Fajiti - insult
Fali - pod
Falko - bread of wheat
Falso - main gate
Fini - an ornament worn on forehrad beneath boralo
Footari - beautiful
France - a fast growing arid zone tree with leaves similar to a pine tree
botanical name Tamarix articulata
Fugo - baloon

G
Gadadi - fox
Gailo - way, a man of foolish nature
Gainon - ornaments
Gairo - dark
Gajban - Lover (Woman), wife

Gali - a narrow passage in a fencing, street

Gamgi - lost
Gandasi - variety of axe
Gangaur - The spring festival of Gangour, symbolic of the ripened
harvest is held in honour of Gauri, the goddess of abundance. The image of
the diety is carried in a procession by gaily dressed men and women. A sight
more exhilarating than the entire population of a city thus assembled for the
purpose of rejoicing is hard to imagine.
Gaontara - village tour
Gasio - mouthful
Gatto - pucca terrace made around a tree, a wooden utensil to keep paan
for smoking
Gaur - a shed or pen or place used for keeping cattle
Geegan - sky
Geend - dirt of eyes
Geer - Start and sing the song[Geet geer dyo]
Ger - Rajasthani folk-dance
Gero - weak boy
Ghaba - clothes
Ghagharo - petticoat
Ghal - to give
Ghana - very much

Ghang - weak
Ghankhara - mostly, mainly
Ghardeeth - house wise
Ghee - butter
Ghilodyo - pot used to heat ghee
Ghin - repulsive feelings
Ghinad - Rajasthani folk-dance
Ghoba - pain
Ghol - to dissolve, solution
Ghol-mathol - - to mix, to confuse
Ghoto - mace, an epithet of Hanuman
Ghugario - a small bell, an ornament worn around the ankles
Ghughari - boiled cerials distributed on special occasions
Ghumar - Rajasthani folk-dance
Ghungo - solid sticky nasal matter
Ghunghato - a veil which conceals the face of a woman
Gindi - ball
Gobalia - green fresh leaves of khejri tree
Goda - knee
Gokhroo - seeds of a grass used to feed cattles

Gokhru - Bracelets
Goo - latrine
Goon - gum
Goontho - thumb
Gora - fair colour, a britisher
Gorband - decoratives used for camels
Gormo - path for cows in a village, cows and bedfellows sent for grazing
in group
Gordi - wife
Goto - laces, used to decorate their dresses
Govo - path for cows in a village
Gudari - a mattress made of used clothes but of small size used for
children
Gudaro - a mattress made of used clothes
Gugoji - folk-deity
Gumado - bowl
Gunthalo - rope made of khimp
Gurdo - gold ornament worn by men in ears
Guwad - village common place, chaupal
Guwadi - residential campus
Guwal - a cowkeeper, a cowherd

Gwar - crop of semi arid areas used for cattle feed and source of gum
Gyaban - pregnant (cow)

H
Haa - were
Haal - front long pole of plaugh
Haali - labour engaged for cultivating field by big farmers in lieu of
advances given to him
Hadumanji - Lord Hanuman
Hal - plaugh
Hal - a instrument use for farm work
Halki - light, less productive
Halsotio - prayer at the start of plaughing a field
Hamal - consent
Hamel - Traditional ornament, which is a string with gold coins
Hangar - feeling of motion
Hansali - Traditional ornament wore over neck
Haq-haquk - - rights
Hardaro - a game played with a ball and a stick put on two bricks; game
is Rajasthani form of cricket.
Hasal - cess, tax

Hathai - village common place, chaupal

Heli - haveli, residencial building
Helo - call with force
Hindo - a swing
Hingun - xerophitic plant with hard fruits botanical name Balanites

roxburghii
Hivado - heart
Ho - was
Hon - yes
Hun - death
I
Ijan - here
Ijaro - contract
Iro - his
Indi - ring ball type of device put on head by paniharin to carry water
pitcher
Induni (Indani) () - see Indi
Irno - an arid shrub with strong odour, shrub is liked by camel as a feed
Isar - god
Isya - like this

J
Jaan - baraat
Jaan boojh'r ' - knowingly
Jaaniyo - barati
Jaan-pichhan - - aquantance
Jakhdi - Song sung to welcome [Batawoo,]husbands of their daughters
Jalam - a pilu fruit tree, net
Jalam - born
Jaldipeesai - to grind teeth with rage
Jalmo - to give birth
Jalwa - Function done after about a month of the delivery. In that function
new mother do pooja at the Well and gifts are exchanged between relatives
and new mother and after that function the mother start doing routine houshold
Jamanon - crop production
Janghiyo - under-wear
Jant - old khejri tree
Japo - delivery
Jayedi - born
Jeeji - Sister
Jeejo - Husband of sister

Jeemanar - menue
Jeemo - take food
Jeen - saddle
Jeethani () - Wife of husband's elder brother
Jeli - Y-shaped agricultural implement used by farmer to carry brushwood
etc.
Jer - the membrane in which foetus develops
Jeth - husband's elder brother
Jewadi - a rope
Jhalo - wave hands to call some body
Jhawli - earthen pot used to keep flour
Jheeni - thin, transparent
Jhernon - an implement to churn milk
Jhunwari - paying respect to a relative by putting tilak on forhead and
offering gift
Jinawar - animal
Jo'do ' - pucca pond, pair
Joont - pair of bullocks
Joonth - food material left in dish
Jugali - cud

K
Kaal - famine
Kaamkaraniya - workers
Kacho - unripe
Kacholo - see-batko
Kachro - small variety of cucumber used for vegetable and achar
Kadeyee - sometime
Kadeyeeni - not at all, never
Kadhawani - the earthen pot used to boil milk
Kadiyo - a ring in hand, an ornament worn on legs
Kado ' - take out, an ayurvedic medicine made by boiling roots eg das mool
kado
Kae - what
Kagad - paper (d & j are interchangable)
Kagalo - crow
kai - howmany
Kair - xerophitic plant of which fruits are used for pickles and vegetables
botanical name Caparis decidua
Kain - what
Kajal - lampblack for use on eyes

Kakadi - cucumber
Kaki - aunty
Kako - father or uncle
Ka'l ' - tomorrow
Kalewo - breakfast
Kali - plates in a cloth, a bud, whitewash, lateral coppice in Bajra plant
Kaljo - heart
Kaluns - black colour on cooking utensils due to smoke
Kamal - woolen blanket made of sheep wool size normally 24', 36, 48
Kamalo - woolen blanket made of sheep wool size normally 8'
Kaman - Magic
Kamangari - beautiful and sexy woman
Kamangaro - handsome and sexy man
Kamedi - dove bird
Kameen - workers, an abuse
Kamp - a thin fexible mix of clay and water
Kanai - near
Kanasun - from somebody
Kanch - a disorder of rectum (prolapusani)
Kanchali - see aangi, the slough of a snake

Kangasio - comb
Kankad dorada - the secred threads put on the hands of bride and
bridegroom in marriage are removed and put at the boundary of village when
bridegroom returns with bride to his village
Kankar - village boundary
Kanthlo - an ornament worn around neck
Kanwar Kalevo - ceremony of offering breakfast to bridegroom by
bride's side during marriage in which bridegroom along with close friends and
associates relish the royal breakfast
Kardyo - please do
Karnon padsi - will have to do
Kasio - an agricultural implement used for weeding keepinh him standing
Kathai - where
Katro - a larva that damages bajra crop
Keeko - whose
Kha'ba ' - to eat
Khaklo - weed resembling bajra crop which is a good fodder for cows
Khalo - a granary
Khalo kado - to separate grains from husk etc in a granary
Khatli - see-gudari
Khato ' - with fast speed

Khato - curry
Khato-peeto - a well off family
Khedo - a farm in the vicinity of village
Kheechadi - recipe made of daal and rice, kheechad gotra
Kheench - to pull
Kheslo - a cotton blanket
Kheyee - twigs of jhadberi or other agricultural plants cut and heaped so
that it can be picked up by a 'jeli'
khimp - a plant fount in Rajasthan
Khodi - a type of panjiri
Khoj - pugmark
Khojo - eunuch
Khoslyo - take away forcefully
Khotlo - alternate name of jats
Khudda-dari
- - game
Khudko
- explosion, sound of gun or crackers
Khuntitaan'ar sono
' - deep sleep
Khur-khoj - - trace
Kijan - where
Kiwad - wooden gate

Kolho - a local variety of cucurbit

Koni - not
Koompli - thatching by munj in conical shape
Koont - corner
Koont - to assess especially the production of food grains in advance
Koontaro - the man who assess the production of food grains in advance
Kooryo - local bhatti to boil milk
Korda - rope or leather belt used to beat
Kothar - store of food
Kothalio - a traditional structure made of cow dung and clay for storage
of food grains. It is thatched with munj to protect from rains. Ash and neem
leaves are put inside to preserve the grains
Kuhad - an axe of heavy weight
Kuhadio - an axe of light weight
Kun - who
Kund - a deep pucca tank
Kunkeda - silly man (when called with anger)
Kunto - a chain to lock a gate
Kuo - well
Kurdantali - a migratory bird of long peak
Kurjan - migratory bird from siberia

Kurti - a type of ladies garment

Kush - lower wood part of plaugh, leaves of kans grass put in heap of
grains as a sybbol of respect in the grainary

L
Laarai - after somebody
Lagyoda - engaged
Lahario - odhana of a woman with wavy prints
Lami - long (woman)
Lamo - long (man)
Lampli - variety of watermelon in shape of a long kakadi
Lao - a strong rope used to pull water from well
Lapsi - recipe made of flour
Lawan - traditional kasheeda
Lawani - harvesting
Leero - a long piece of land
Lethari - decay of a brick and lime mortar wall due to weathering
Ley'r ' - after taking
Lhadagi - recovered a lost thing
Log - people
Loon - salt

Loonkadi - a fox
Lunkyar - game
Loontho - heavy or grand
Lugado - a mantle of a woman, chunni to cover entire body of a woman
Lukbhinchani
- the game of hide and seek
Lugai
- wife, woman
Lunkar
- a red woolen blanket used by women
Lyojibhai - delicious food

M
Maachhar - mosquito
Malzadi - silly woman (calling with anger)
Maand - to write
Maankhi - fly
Maansun - take out from some thing
Maantho - lazy
Majoor - labour
Mal-dari - game
Malio - see chaubaro
Mandaso - a big cloth like blanket is put around head for protection
Mandnon - drawings on wall

Mando - a pole made of khejadi tree put on the day of marriage of a girl
Mangori - small lumps of pounded pulse dried in the sun, badi in hindi
Manni - Mehandi
Manvar - request
Manyla - insider
Mamo - Maternal uncle
Mariliya - an abuse
Marzana - an abuse
Matani - the membrane in which foetus develops and comes out first
Mathai - for this
Matiro - water melon
Mauchari - traditional Rajasthani ladies shoes
Maur - to take seeds out of bajra seeta, peacock
Mauran - bajra seeds taken out from green seetas
Maurio - peacock
Mauro - land of highest sand dune
Mausar - the ceremony after death of a person in which all relatives and
villagers are invited on food
Mayero - see bhaat
Mawali - goddess

Meendi - Plates
Meenjar - flowers of khejri tree
Meengni - excrata of sheep or goat
Meengna - excrata of camel
Mel - gettogether ceremony on previous day of marriage by the side of
bridegroom
Melo - fair
Melo - put
Meh - rains
Mekhalio - shirt of a child
Mero - mine
Mharo
Mhanro

- mine
- ours

Mhanko - ours
Mhanai - to us
Mhe - we
Milay'r ' - after mixing or adding
Modo - saint
Modo - late
Mokla - sufficient, very much

Moth - a desert crop rich in protiens,dal moth

Mothia - a grass with delicious root bulb
Motyar - husband, youngman
Muddho - chair made of munj straws
Mugdano
- green and dried twigs of khejri tree brought from farm on a
cart on the day of baanwhich are worshiped by mother or sister of a boy or girl
prior to marriage
Mulkai
- smiling
Muklao - gona, second part of marriage after which the bride starts
living with his husband
Mumal - - Lover (Woman), wife
Mundo - face
Mungho - at higher rates
Munj
- plant used for thatching, for making ropes, baskets etc botanical
name Saccharum munja
Munjee - a miser
Murki - ornament worn by males in the ear in the shape of a ring

N
Nad - neck
Naro - bull
Nankh - drop down

Napho - profit
Nauro - campus of a family not used for residential purpose but used to
keep animals etc
Nedo - near
Neemdai - to vanish
Neemdo - neem tree
Neen - sleep
Neto - leader
Netro - leather belt used to churn curd
Nezo - The flag of Gogaji deity
Ninan - weeding
Nuto - invitation
Nuvon - new
Nyaro - separate family, different

O
Ochhe - fast
Odhanon - a mantle of a woman, chunni to cover entire body of a
woman
Ojario - kind of an odhana or chunari
Ojun - again

Olo - to hide face

Olun - to miss, a Rajasthani song
Ola - hailstorm
Oto - behind something

P
Paachha - back
Paali - shift
Paan - tobacco mixture used for smoking, leaf
Paan - dependent
Pabuji - Rajasthani folk-deity
Padi - young female buffalow
Pado - young male buffalow
Paglyo - step
Paili - earlier
Pai'lo ' - first
Pajebs - Anklets
Paal - parapet
Paal - a mat made of twigs of shrubs used in making a jhompada
Pagro - a support to legs for a camel or horse rider

Pajao - insert some object into a hole

Pale - Pregnant young cow / bedfellow
Palo -leaves of ber shrub dried and used as fodder
Palo - severe cold, frost
Pangarai - to grow
Paniharin - a woman carrying water from well
Panti - division, term
Panw - scabies
Panwdo - interval between two steps when one moves
Panwano - guest
Parban - management
Parindo - a place used to keep drinking water
Patola - recipe made of boiled moth or mung or gwar
Peelapotra - on the birth of a male child nai is sent to maternal side
with a cloth coloured with turmeric to give a message of birth
Peelo - plural peela, Traditional Chunni, which has a Orange coloured
circle in the middle supposed to be worn for the first time when a lady gives
birth to son and is send by her parents. Peela is supposed to signify that lady
is mother of son
Peesa - money
Peethi - paste made of grounded barley, turmeric and ghee used as a
fairness cream

Pesgaro - the function on next day of return of barat by the side of

bridegroom from marriage
Peti - box
Peedho - seat
Pomcho -traditional Chunni, which has yellow coloured circle in the middle
Phito - Turban
Phito -stubarn, shameless
Phog - a shrub found in desert area of Rajasthan. Its roots are used to
prepaire charcoal to melt iron. Its flowers, known as Phogalo,are used to
prepaire rayata. Phogat gotra is derived from it.Batanical name Calligonam

poligonoides
Phogalo - The flowers of Phog, used to prepaire rayata
Phoofo - Husband of Father's sister
Pichhan - to recognize, identity
Poli - front airy open verandah used by males only
Pugo - reach
Pulo - bundle of bajra or jwar
Punjali - heap of bajra seeta
Purani - stick to run the bull
Purkha - ancestors
Phera - Ceremony performed during marraige when the couple take Vachan
in front of Agni devata

Poonchhgi - reached
Potho - fresh cow dung
Potro - nepkin of a newly born child
Pyario - kiss
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Q
Qyamkhani - a caste of muslims

R
Rabadi - a recipe made of churned curd and flaur.
Rado - barn for animals
Rakdi - Ornament worn on forehead
Ramari - silly women(when called with love)
Ramaryo - silly man(when called with love)
Rangbari - the ceremony of showing ornaments and clothes of a bride
Rangro - alternate name of rajputs
Rasdi - a game
Ratijko - on the first night of marriage all family members sing songs,
dance and worship deities without sleeping
Raand - widow, an abuse

Raandh - prepare a recipe like rabadi by continuous stirring

Reeto - empty
Rewad - herd of sheep
Ripya - rupees
Rohi - agricultural land of a village
Rohido - a flowering tree found in fields, botanical name Tecomella

undulata
Rojina - daily
Roonkh - tree
Roonkhdi - a weed of bajra crop
Rulta - wander without purpose
Rulyoda - ruined, of no use
Rungas - dishonesty with bias in somebodies favour
Runsadio - wave of spread of a viral infection
Roosgyo - became displeased

S
Saag - vegetable
Saanchi - true
Saand - bull
Saagi - actual, same

Saa'ro ' - relief

Saatai - in exchange
Saawchet - alert
Sabad - Alphabets
Safo - turban
Sagala - all
Sagi - mother-in-law of one's son or daughter
Sago - father-in-law of one's son or daughter
Sai'n - all
Sai'li ' - heavy (feminine)
Sai'lo ' - heavy (masculine)
Sain - explain with expressions without speaking
Sain-paith - - knowing each other
Samhaal - take care, sweets gifted to invitees in function
Samthuni - function to honour the baraatis and guests in marriage
Sanani - mark of identification
Sangari - pod of khejri tree
Sania - a good fodder botanical name Crotolarai burhia
Sanwali - light black in colour
Sapanon - dream

Saran - down-sloping pitch of a well over which bulls or camels drag

water from a well by rope called Lao, Saran is a Jat gotra
Sarpech - musculine ornament worn in front on the turban. It was often
extended into a golden band set with emeralds, rubies, diamonds.
Sathia - when a male child is born in Rajasthan, signs of swastik are
made on door by using cowdung.
Sasaro - In-lows house
Sato - a herb which is a good fodder for cattle botanical name Boerhavia

diffusa, Marring his doughter and sons in exchange of eachother.

Sedo - nasal phlegm
Shafo - Turban
Seelo - with moisture
Seero - recipe made of flour, sugar and ghee , halwa
Seeto - bajra ear head or panicle
Sehlo - barati's reception ceremony
Sej - bad properly decorated
Sialo - winter season
Sinalio - fox
Sighriya - all members of family invited in some function
Singar - the act of dressing, makeup and putting ornaments by a woman
eg 16 singar
Siraman - breakfast

Sinjharo - function in which gifts are offered to a young lady prior to

marriage and after marriage also on the occasion of previous day of teej and
gangaur
Sinw - farm boundary
Sir - head
Siri - partner in farming
Sogri - fruits of radish
So'gi ' - gone to sleep
Sood - unwanted shrubs cut before cultivation
Soonpo - hand over
Soon - from
So'ri ' - easy (feminine use)
So'ro ' - easy (masculine use)
Soriyo - a mattress made of cotton
Suavadti

- Pregnant woman

Subhito - convenient
Suraliya - ornament worn in ears
Sunba - for listening
Sundi - nabhi in hindi
Sungho - cheap
Sunto - strong rainy winds

Syalia - throught infection

Syat - probably, moment
Syami - swami in hindi, a caste engaged in pooja in temples

T
Tabar - child
Taan - rhythm
Tagari - ornament worn by ladies on the waste
Tain - till, for
Tangarpatiya - belts used to fix saddle on camel
Tant - strength
Tanti - a sacred thread put in the name of a deity
Tantio - burr
Taparo - house
Tarkai - tomorrow
Tarko - early morning
Tat - she goat
Tato - hot
Tawado - sun light
Tawlo - fast

Teej - festival of swings more centered towards girls. Held during the
monsoons, July-August Teej is also dedicated to Lord Shiva and Parvati and at
this time it is married women who pray for a happy and long married life.
Though celebrations are held all over the state, it is particularly colorful in
Jaipur where a procession winds its way for two days through the Old City. It is
the festival of swings which are decorated with flowers and hung from trees.
Young girls and women dressed in green clothes sing songs in celebration of
the advent of the monsoon. The Teej idol is covered with a canopy whereas
the Gangaur idol is open. Teej is supposed to bring the season opf festivals, a
well known saying in rajasthan "TEEJ TUYHARAN LE BHAJI, GANGOUR
TOYHARAN LE DOOBEE" also in other areas the saying is Teej tyoharan

bawri, le dubee gangaur

Teeko - a ceremony of giving gifts to a bride groom prior to his marriage
Teelo - sand dune