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Nai, also known as Sain is a generic term for occupational castes of barbers. The name is said to be derived from the Sanskrit word nāpita (नापित). [1] In modern times Nai in northern India refer to themselves as "Sain" instead of Nai. The Nai caste is classified as an Other Backward Class in most of the state in
Lai (traditional Chinese: 賴; simplified Chinese: 赖; pinyin: Lài) is a common Chinese surname that is pronounced similarly in both Mandarin and Hakka dialects. The meaning of the character used in the Lai (賴) surname is "depend on; trust in; rely on".
Nai language, a language of Papua New Guinea; National Archives of India, the official archives of the government of India; North Adria Aviation , a Croatian airline; North Allegheny Intermediate High School, in McCandless, Pennsylvania; Nai, or three-legged softshell turtle, from Chinese mythology
A Chinese amah (right) with a woman and her three children Joanna de Silva Two ayahs in British India with their charges. An amah (Portuguese: ama, German: Amme, Medieval Latin: amma, simplified Chinese: 阿妈; traditional Chinese: 阿 媽; pinyin: ā mā; Wade–Giles: a¹ ma¹) or ayah (Portuguese: aia, Latin: avia, Tagalog: yaya) is a girl or woman employed by a family to clean, look after ...
Tianzhu (Chinese: 天竺; pinyin: Tiānzhú) is the historical ancient Chinese name for the Indian subcontinent which means "Centre of Heaven".. Tianzhu was also referred to as Wutianzhu (五天竺, literal meaning is "Five Indias"), because there were five geographical regions on the Indian subcontinent known to the Chinese: Central, Eastern, Northern, Southern, and Western India.
States and union territories of India by the spoken first language [1] [note 1]. The Republic of India is home to several hundred languages.Most Indians speak a language belonging to the families of the Indo-Aryan branch of Indo-European (c. 77%), the Dravidian (c. 20.61%), the Austroasiatic (precisely Munda and Khasic) (c. 1.2%), or the Sino-Tibetan (precisely Tibeto-Burman) (c. 0.8%), with ...
Transcription into Chinese characters is the use of traditional or simplified Chinese characters to phonetically transcribe the sound of terms and names of foreign words to the Chinese language. Transcription is distinct from translation into Chinese whereby the meaning of a foreign word is communicated in Chinese.
The Chinese surname meaning "thunder" is spelled in Vietnamese as Lôi (IPA:, that being the Sino-Vietnamese pronunciation of the original Chinese character). [ 3 ] Loi is a surname found in Punjab, it is a common Sikh Jatt surname used by farmers/landowners.