@Lynn posted:

Not sure abt gobHar

but gubara/Gobara :—-when u heap up cowdung to dry (n used ‘mould’ for garden plants) ..i used to have to spade up cowdung from ourback hard n put in a pile for it to dry..then my mom used to put in bags n hit on ground to break or pound it in the bag with a cricket bat to break up..natural soil/fertilizer for garden!

Also used for cooking, mosquito smoke, in Hawan and production of Methane gas.

Peeps used to daab bottom house and fowl pen with it, mixed as a paste with clay mud.

@Mitwah posted:

Also used for cooking, mosquito smoke, in Hawan and production of Methane gas.

Peeps used to daab bottom house and fowl pen with it, mixed as a paste with clay mud.

Yrs abt daabing bottom house n fireside with fresh cow dung

we called POTNA .. iwe mixed cow dung with water  n ‘caddy’ a special kind of mud

Anybody still using chowki??

now we have nice countertops to baylay roti !!

i brought my belna with me whn i left GY but  left chowki behind

@Mitwah posted:

भैंस BhaiNs.. the little dot means it's Nasal ...
  Sometimes used an insult for a fat person.

Same  as in baigan.  Whn Indians  say the word , they stress on the AI n there is a faint N sound after the AI  
so i think it baiNgan/bhaiNgan

ps i have many  indian coworkers ..mostly  Punjabis/Sikhs n Gujratis

they say baylan for belna

n call sada roti Phulka roti

the ‘ph’ sound is not an ‘F’ sound like in English

@Lynn posted:

Anybody still using chowki??

now we have nice countertops to baylay roti !!

i brought my belna with me whn i left GY but  left chowki behind

Still using belna, chowki plus a few other "Guyanese" items.

I had a joke but it lil wicked so I not postin it...jus sayin

DAHI

My Maa n sisters used to make dahi …never knew this was called YOGURT

I loved it with sugar..!

Charhaway

(Last nite , i heard it on TV show..Charhawah)

Baapray ..

Shabaash

Dachna

Paisa

Anyone knows this?/

wht is a machaan!

@Lynn posted:

Anyone knows this?/

wht is a machaan!

Upright sticks with cross sticks at the top for vine plants to run on ,for example squash ,nenwah ,carilla ..etc .Usually bamboo was used.

@Django posted:

Upright sticks with cross sticks at the top for vine plants to run on ,for example squash ,nenwah ,carilla ..etc .Usually bamboo was used.

Arbor..right (but we used to say ‘harba/harbar’…lol)

we had big ones for our  seim n squash near the side of trench …

I am trying to rem wht my mom called 2 things ..

iknow karyan is the heap where u mashed the rice

but after u done mash rice , theyused to use pitch forks to remove the straw n pile a heap out of the ‘kitchen’ ..later we would burn it n use as fertilisers for the garden ..my mom had a ‘hindi word for it

then whn u bring in the ‘wads’ from the fiels..we stacked them nicely n used t use it as bed..(spread blankets n slept high up , sheltered from the cold breeze n insects crawling on ground.  My mom had a name for this too..

Wht is bramble??

@Lynn posted:

Wht is bramble??

Dry stalks from small plants ,like black sage and end parts of tree limbs .

@Lynn posted:

I am trying to rem wht my mom called 2 things ..

iknow karyan is the heap where u mashed the rice

but after u done mash rice , theyused to use pitch forks to remove the straw n pile a heap out of the ‘kitchen’ ..later we would burn it n use as fertilisers for the garden ..my mom had a ‘hindi word for it

then whn u bring in the ‘wads’ from the fiels..we stacked them nicely n used t use it as bed..(spread blankets n slept high up , sheltered from the cold breeze n insects crawling on ground.  My mom had a name for this too..

Straw heaped up is called pyrah heap .

@Lynn posted:

Anybody still using chowki??

now we have nice countertops to baylay roti !!

i brought my belna with me whn i left GY but  left chowki behind

I had a chowki in the early 80’s also used on the other side as cutting board. Mid 80’s someone gifted me a large round wooden thing that turned on its base…schupidy coolie gyal had no clue it was a lazy Susan so I used it as my fancy chowki ( I still have it)  I did not start using counter until I saw hubby’s sisinlaw roll out the xxxlarge roti to make 6 oil roti😄

I came to Toronto for 3 weeks holiday with intentions to return to GY…did not bring anything for myself just few pcs clothes.