(Hin): दिमापुर dimāpur (Dim): dimāpur ‘Big River Town’- City/District, Nagaland Dim: prob. di, ‘river’; ma, ‘big’, ‘great’;...
(Hin): किफ़ाइर kiphair(Tibeto-Burman): kiphire ‘Strong High Place’ – Town/District, Nagaland From local Tibeto-Burman forms combining ideas of ‘strength’ or ‘firmness’ with ‘high place’, ‘summit’. Kiphire stands at the gateway to the Saramati range, where Nagaland...
(Hin): कोहिमा kohima ‘Kewhi Flower’ [Kewhimia, Kewhi-ra] – City/Capital/District, Nagaland Kohima’s present name is a British reshaping of Kewhira, the old Angami settlement stretched along a narrow ridge. Kohima was founded in 1878 and became the HQ of the...
(Hin): मोकोकचुंग mokokchung(Ao): mokokchung ‘Village on the High Ridge’ – Town/District, Nagaland Ao: mokok, ‘hilltop’; and chung, ‘village’. A later folk interpretation connects mokok with the reluctant migration from Soyim, giving rise to the gloss ‘forced...
(Hin): मोन mon (Knk): mon ‘The High Country’ – Town/District, Nagaland Knk: mon, prob. from a root meaning ‘high place’, ‘elevated land’. Perched near the Myanmar frontier, Mon is set in a landscape of steep ridges. This is the heartland of the Konyak Nagas, known for...
(Hin): पेरेन peren(Zeme/Lia): peren ‘Ridge Village’ – Town/District, Nagaland Zeme/Lia: prob. from roots meaning ‘ridge’ or ‘crest’ combined with ‘village’. Peren lies on the southern flank of Nagaland, where the hills roll into Manipur. The name reflects the long...
(Hin): फेक phek(Chk): phék ‘Village on the Hill’ – Town/District, Nagaland From Chk: prob. from roots indicating ‘hill’ or ‘ridge settlement’. Phek lies in cool, elevated country marked by sweeping terraces and pine-covered slopes. The nearby Pfutsero plateau is known...
The ‘Seven Sisters’ are a family of seven states on the North Eastern Region (NER) of India: Arunachal Pradesh (ArP), Assam (Asm), Manipur (Man), Meghalaya (Meg), Mizoram (Miz), Nagaland (Nag), Tripura (Tri). Sikkim is usually included as a brother state....
(Hin): तुएंसांग tuensāng(Chg/Sgm): tuen-tsang ‘The Cluster of Villages’ – Town/District, Nagaland Chg/Sgm: tuen, sometimes ‘many’ or ‘central’; tsang, ‘village’ or ‘settlement’. Tuensang stretches across one of Nagaland’s largest districts, where Chang, Sangtam,...
(Hin): वोखा wokhā(Lth): wokhā ‘Head of the Mountain’ – Town/District, Nagaland Lth: wokha, ‘summit’, ‘hill-top’, ‘head of the hill’. Wokha occupies a long ridge rising above orchards, fisheries, river basins, terraced fields, highland villages and forested slopes. Its...
(Hin): ज़ूनेबोटो zūneboto(Sumi): zünhebo-to ‘Hill of Deep Waters’ – Town/District, Nagaland Sumi: from zünhebo, ‘deep water’, ‘flowing water’; and –to, ‘hill’. Zunheboto spreads across rounded uplands threaded with streams and freshwater springs.The district’s name...
