kâphlum
Mizo
Etymology
From
kâp
(
“
to shoot
”
)
+
hlum
(
“
to death
”
)
.
Verb
kâphlum
(
stem II
kahhlum
)
to
gun down
,
shoot
dead
Further reading
Lorrain, J. Herbert
(
1940
), “
kap-hlum
”, in
Dictionary of the Lushai language
, Calcutta: Asiatic Society