Definition, Meaning & Anagrams | English word KUMAONI

Definitions of KUMAONI

1. An ethnic group of Uttarakhand in northern India.
2. The Indo-Aryan language of these people.

Examples of Using KUMAONI in a Sentence

• Also known as 'Bajra' in Hindi and Urdu, 'Sajje' in Kannada, 'Kambu' in Tamil, 'Sajjalu' in Telugu, 'Bajeer' in Kumaoni, 'Bajri' in Gujarati and 'Maiwa' in Hausa, 'Mexoeira' in Mozambique, 'Baajri' in Marathi, 'Za' in the Dagbani language of Ghana, 'Zuk' in Tyap of Nigeria, 'Mawele' in Swahili, 'Mwere' in Meru language of Kenya, 'Mahangu' in Kwanyama of Namibia.
• The peculiarities of grammar in Kumaoni and other Central Pahari languages exist due to the influence of the now extinct language of the Khasas, the first inhabitants of the region.
• Ceding to long-standing demands to make Garhwali the official language of Uttarakhand and to be taught at schools and universities, in 2014 the Uttarakhand state government issued orders to set up departments of Kumaoni and Garhwali languages at Kumaon University and Garhwal University respectively and to introduce Kumaoni and Garhwali language courses at the undergraduate level.
• The Kumaon Regimental Centre, established at Ranikhet, recruits Kumaoni people from the Kumaon division of Uttarakhand, and Haryanvi from the Haryana, Rajasthan (combined region also known as Ahirwal) and Uttar Pradesh.
• Narayan Datt Tiwari was born to a Kumaoni Brahmin family in 1925, in the village of Baluti located in Nainital district of Uttarakhand state.
• Ranikhet, which means Queen's Meadow in Kumaoni, gets its name from a local legend, which states that it was here, that Raja Sudhardev, a Katyuri ruler, won the heart of his queen, Rani Padmini, who subsequently chose the area for her residence, giving it the name, Ranikhet, though no palace exists in the area.
• Latiya Bar/Ban (word-final sound is retroflex palatal nasal stop), for example, will cause people to become dumb (from the Kumaoni word for dumbness plus the indigenous term).
• Manohar Shyam Joshi was born on 9 August 1933 at Ajmer in Rajasthan, the son of a noted educationist and musicologist belonging to a Kumaoni Brahmin family from Almora, Uttar Pradesh now in the state of Uttarakhand.
• The surname is used amongst speakers of Nepali, Bhojpuri, Rajasthani, Gujarati, Hindi, Oriya, Maithili, Kumaoni and Bengali as well as the Santhals.
• The local Kumaoni food includes Bhatt ki Churkani, Jholi-Bhat, Gaahat ke Dubke, Channe ke Dubke, Ras-Bhat, Manduwe ki Roti, Paalak ka Kaapa, Bhang ki Chutni, singhodi, Aloo Ke Gutke, Thechwani, Bal Mithai, Singal, Bichoo Saag.
• On 13 July 1715, Kumaoni troops clashed with Garhwali troops that were moving to Moradabad and Bareilly.
• Today the Indo-Aryan languages in which it exists are Marathi and Konkani (ळ), Oriya (ଳ), Gujarati (ળ), most varieties of Rajasthani, Bhili, some dialects of Punjabi language (ਲ਼), most dialects of Western Pahari, Kumaoni, Haryanavi, and the Saharanpur dialect of Northwestern Kauravi.
• For example, Bhojva (Bhojpuri), Bhunjva (Bagheli) Doontha (Bundeli), Kāngla (Braj), Kangda (Haryanvi), Ganglo (Rajasthani), Gangva (Kumaoni), Gangaram (Bengali), and Ganga (Marathi).
• This book collates the English translations of a form of Garhwali and Kumaoni folk heroic ballads called 'Veergatha'.
• Chhetris have same genealogy as the Kumaoni and Garhwali Rajputs of Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh ,collectively these three are known as Khas Rajputs in old times but today it is used very less.
• He also illogically announced that Kumaoni soldiers to be thieves and dacoits at a lecture at Lansdown in Northern India in 1945, he was referring to the soldiers of Azad Hind Fauj of Netaji Subhas Bose.
• Kashmiri and Dogri of Pahari languages is spoken in Jammu and Kashmir, Punjabi of North-Western Indo-Aryan languages is spoken in Punjab, Kumaoni and Garhwali of Pahari languages are spoken in Uttarakhand, Himachali languages of Pahari languages are spoken in Himachal Pradesh, Haryanvi of Central Indo-Aryan languages is spoken in Haryana, Hindi and Awadhi of Central Indo-Aryan languages are spoken in Uttar Pradesh, and Rajasthani languages are spoken Rajasthan.
• Kumaoni is spoken in the Kumaon division, covering districts such as Almora, Nainital, and Pithoragarh, while Garhwali is native to the Garhwal division, which includes areas like Dehradun, Tehri, and Pauri.

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