Kathmandu, April 19
The Nepal Academy is adding 12 new words related to the Covid-19 pandemic to the latest edition of its Nepali dictionary.
The academy’s dictionary is one of the most popular and credible dictionaries of the language.
The academy’s Chancellor Ganga Prasad Uprety says the academy is adding the words such as ‘lockdown’, ‘bandabandi’ (meaning ‘lockdown’ in Nepali), ‘human quarantining’ (because ‘quarantining’ was used for animals and plants only in Nepal in general), ‘social distancing’, ‘contact tracing’ and ‘PPE’ among others.
He says the new dictionary will be printed as soon as the lockdown will be over.
