murha

plural murhas

1. A stool made of woven cane, used in northeast India.

   Keramat brought out a murha, a low stool made of woven cane. He squatted on the earth beside me.

   2000, Sanjoy Hazarika, Rites of Passage

   2 more examples

   There is only a murha in the opposite corner and I do not want to be uncomfortable now. I lower myself into my father's chair.

   2010, Jahnavi Barua, Rebirth, Penguin, page 154

   She had recently learned to make cane murhas and now, every evening, when she returned from the market, she would first finish her cooking and then make murhas while Moni finished his studies.

   2011, Arupa Patangia Kalita, translated by Deepika Phukan, The Story of Felanee