Datasets:

hmar-lang
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hmar-language-basic-words

hmr stringlengths 1 75	en stringlengths 0 865	pos stringclasses 34 values
Up	to put a lid on a pot when boiling on the fire to keep the steam in	v
Kam	the mouth, speech, conversation, talk, speech; a bank, a shore	n
Parva	a pigeon	n
Vaiphei	name of a tribe	n
Râl	enemy, foe	n
Skuash	squash, a variety of vegetable	n
Him	without a flaw, unharmed, safe	adj
Luvir	the top of a human head where hairs seem to grow in circular manner (normal person usually have one of such though there are some who have more than one)	n
Awt	to settle down and get ready for eating, to partake a meal	v
Zapa	shame, shy	adj
Phihli	busy	adj
Ngir tlun	to stand upright, to stand straight, to stand at attention	v
Ngaihlu	to think much of, to value highly, to esteem	adj
Awm reng	reasonable, possibility	adj
Sukdawng	to deprive, to deceive	n
Hamda	a caul, membrane, the diaphragm	n
Ngeng	arrogant, haughty, insolent, great and then rude and unmannerly	adj
Sukvar	to light up, to lighten	v
Inngaihlu	to exalt one's self, to be conceited, to think highly of one's self, to be proud	n
Rampuivâ	name of a species of bird	n
Tlakkhur	a deep pit	n
Amal malin	one by one, one at a time	adv
Thiem inchang tir	to acquit, to pronounce guiltless, to clear of guilt	adv
Tawmkal	a hand weaving material	n
Farnu	the term for a man to refer to all his sisters and female cousins or relatives	n
Intui	a fowl laying an egg	v
Nelhau	name of the many non-fatal but playful spirit the pre-Christian Hmar believes to exist	n
Thuoksam	an ailment of breathing issue, asthma	n
Nawtfe	a variety of big bean (the dry fruit of which is used to rub dishes when washing)	n
Sun pel	to pass through a village without putting up for the night	n
Lumtu	those that occupy at the moment, occupants (of a house, etc)	n
Zawn fung	stave	n
Nambar 4	No. 4, heroin, drug	n
Hangthim	moth, maggot	n
Erpawt	airport	n
Kelchalpabawk	a variety of wild tree	n
Dawrawm	being unreliable, to be unreliable	adj
Trentuikhawthla	waterfall	n
Ngaithla	to listen, to give heed to, to hark	v
Ngawichawi	morose, quiet (in disposition or through sickness)	adj
So	boil, to bubble up, to effervesce, etc	v
Rannung	all living creatures (land and water animals, insects, birds, etc)	n
Dûm hlo	a water plant, water hyacinth	n
Khuoihlu	bee wax	n
Fak le dawn	one’s requirement for eating and drinking, provisions, victuals	n
Milai	a Hmar Khawlhring sub clan	n
Sam phier	to plait (the hair)	v
Sisêp	to winnow, to remove the chaff and the broken pieces	v
Inzapui um	shameful, disgraceful	adj
Kuartar	quarter	n
Ketet lam	name of one of the eight dances performed during Sikpui festival	n
Kawtkhar vengtu	the gatekeeper, janitor	n
Thlarau tieng	spiritual	adj
Lekhal	to get in front of, to outstrip	v
Khawsawt in	the house of mourning	n
Thovuokna	a fly swatter	n
Thlamuong	to be comforted, to be consoled, to be in comfort, to be at peace	n
Rotna	a proposal	n
Tu	who? whom? whose?	prn
Mimpum	a single grain of maize (of the famous Liendo folktale)	n
Puonbi	to wrap a cloth by women	v
Indîp	to be in one another's way	v
Singkip	a species of house spider	n
Uiekpar	name of a wild flower	n
Hnimchier	a whole day rain, raining all day	adj
Inbuvawr	children’s play with pebbles or pieces of stone	n
Châl	a species of bamboo	n
Thi le thi dam le dam	an expression of death-defying risk (dead if death life if alive)	phrase
Muolphei	a Hmar Khawbung sub clan	n
Zoi	feeble, powerless, weak, paralytic	adj
Trieulung	shingle, sandstone, pebbles	n
Ramhnuoimi	a rebel (who move out from one’s house) and hid outside (jungle)	n
Tîngpui ra	the fruit of cane (edible)	n
Phawrdawk	to take out, to exhume, to reveal	v
Trim	itch, tingle, tickling (of the teeth after eating sour fruits)	adj
Ngairuk	to eavesdrop, to secretly listen someone else’ conversation	v
Sil	cramp, contraction of the muscles, tired	n
Ieng le ang	to behave with pride	adj
Taima takin	diligently, laboriously	adv
Tuihnar	the source of a stream, river	n
Hlak	often, always, continually, in the habit of	adj
Inip	to hold one’s breathe	v
Tlaktlaina	usefulness, serviceability	n
Chawngchen	to join or take part in a festival or feast	v
Enchieng	to scrutinize, to examine closely	v
Hrawn	in unity, together	adj
Hri	a disease, epidemic	n
Kawngah	regarding, concerning, about	prpn
Khaukhim	the name of a flowering tree with red blossoms	n
Hnathlak	descendants, tribe	n
Thutiem nei	to have a promise	v
Troktrokorsen	the name of a small red throated bird	n
Tât ngei	to sharpen (like knife)	v
Lepse	to criticize, to wrongly accuse, insult	v
Pielte	the name of a fruit bearing plant	n
Buleng	name of a tree	n
Sienla	if, if it, had if, if they	adv
Dumva	name of a species of bird	n
Bapui	a Hmar Faihriem sub clan	n
Pareng	father and sons	n

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Hmar Dictionary (Basic Words)

A comprehensive collection of ~11,000 Hmar words and phrases, primarily sourced from Dr. John H. Pulamte's dictionary (Pherzawl Diksawnari). This dataset is optimized for NLP tasks, language preservation, and machine translation.

Repository Structure

data/: Raw CSV source files.
processed/: Training-ready files in JSON Lines (.jsonl) format.
- train.jsonl: 95% of the data (~10,300 entries).
- test.jsonl: 5% of the data (~500 entries).
hmar_data.json: The complete dataset in a single JSON array.
convert_to_json.py: Script used to process raw data and generate splits.

Data Structure

JSON/JSONL Format

The data is structured Hmar-first to prioritize the primary language:

{
  "hmr": "A bangkhai",
  "en": "remainder, extra, surplus",
  "pos": "v"
}

hmr: The Hmar word or phrase.
en: English translation or description.
pos: Part of speech (e.g., n for noun, v for verb, adj for adjective).

Usage

To regenerate the processed files from source:

python3 convert_to_json.py

Dataset Details

Total Entries: 10,884
Source: Dr. John H. Pulamte’s Dictionary (Pherzawl Diksawnari).
Format: CSV (Source), JSON/JSONL (Processed).

License

MIT. Note that while the repository is MIT, the source data from the Pherzawl Diksawnari may be subject to external copyright.

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10,884