murha

From Assamese মুঢ়া (murha).

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.

• umrah

Probably borrowed from Proto-Norse (*murþa-), from Proto-Germanic *murþą (for *þ > *h, compare huopa), SSA however instead opines that the word may be a back-derivation from murhe, with influence in meaning from the Germanic word.^[1] If a loan, doublet of marras.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmurhɑ/,
• Rhymes: -urhɑ
• Hyphenation^(key): mur‧ha

murha

1. (law) murder; first-degree murder (US)

• See usage notes under tappo.

• kuolemantuottamus
• surma
• tappo

• “murha”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

• hurma