murha

English

Etymology

From Assamese মুঢ়া (murha).

Noun

murha (plural murhas)

1. A stool made of woven cane, used in northeast India.
   • 2000, Sanjoy Hazarika, Rites of Passage:

     Keramat brought out a murha, a low stool made of woven cane. He squatted on the earth beside me.

   • 2010, Jahnavi Barua, Rebirth, Penguin, page 154:

     There is only a murha in the opposite corner and I do not want to be uncomfortable now. I lower myself into my father's chair.

   • 2011, Arupa Patangia Kalita, translated by Deepika Phukan, The Story of Felanee:

     She had recently learned to make cane murhas and now, every evening, when she returned from the market, she would first finish her cooking and then make murhas while Moni finished his studies.

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