Dimasa definition

Dimasa means “sons of the river,”17 and Khasia people in nearby hills still worship river gods, including goddess Kupli.18 Kapileswar perhaps came to life at an old Kupli cult site, where high caste people worshiped Siva, while other locals venerated the site but not Siva.19
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Examples of Dimasa in a sentence

  • Consider the following examples: As mentioned above that Kabonglo has vigesimal numeral kui-ge ‘20’ [kui ‘twenty x ge ‘one’] as it is found in very few Tibeto-▇▇▇▇▇▇ languages of North East India namely Manipuri (Yashawanta, 2000), Dimasa (▇▇▇▇▇▇, 2013), Rongmei (▇▇▇, 2015) etc.

  • These Dimasa kings are thought to be the descendants of Kamarupa kings.

  • It is merely a suppletive form which is found in many other Tibeto-▇▇▇▇▇▇ languages, namely, Manipuri, Dimasa, Rongmei, Kokborok, Zeme, etc.

  • Located in central Assam, Karbi Anglong is the state’s largest district and a melting pot of ethnicities and tribal groups — Karbi, Dimasa, Bodo, Kuki, Hmar, Tiwa, Garo, Man (Tai speakers), Rengma Naga.

  • Assam’s hill districts of Dima Hasao and Karbi Anglong have a long history of insurgency by Karbi and Dimasa groups that was fueled by a fundamental demand for statehood and reached its zenith in the middle of the 1990s.

  • Between the 13th and 16th centuries, Dimasa kings ruled large portions of Assam along the south bank of the Brahmaputra.