Citations:manji

English citations of manji

• 1982, Adrian Duarte, The Crafts and Textiles of Sind and Baluchistan, page 42:

  The article is finally polished off with a stick of the date palm, while it is still on the lathe. I was told that the trade is in a good way, there being a good local demand, chiefly for swinging beds (pingahs), charpoy legs, low stools (manjis), and patis for measuring rice […]

• 2009, Johanna Kuyvenhoven, In the Presence of Each Other: A Pedagogy of Storytelling, University of Toronto Press (→ISBN), page 80:

  […] in his old home in Pakistan. His grandmother was telling him a story. They were together on the manji. He told us that it was his very own manji that she made for him with her own hands for his birthday. […] It seemed Taza was moved, remembering his grandmother and his lost 'manji,' something not in his new home. Then Linda asked on behalf of herself and others who looked puzzled: 'Manji?' Punjabi speakers in the class […] began suggesting English equivalents, and spoke in bursts, out of turn: 'Bed! A bed!' 'Couch!' 'You can sleep there.' 'In the temple too!' Perhaps Taza couldn't think of an English word. More likely, the so-called equivalent was wholly inadequate to his meaning. […]

• 2011, Rocky Singh, Mayur Sharma, Highway on my Plate: The indian guide to roadside eating, Random House India (→ISBN)

  […] There is even a tap to bathe under after you have spent a night sleeping on the manjis (beds), and all this comes at the price of a meal!

• 2016, Muhammad Asghar, The Sacred and the Secular: Aesthetics in Domestic Spaces of Pakistan/Punjab, LIT Verlag Münster (→ISBN), page 93:

  […] shrines and other religious objects directly above the manjis (cot-like rope beds) in a poor class house.