Apokpa

English

Noun

Apokpa (plural Apokpas)

1. Any ancestral deity in Meitei folklore, mythology and religion.
2. Any deified deceased or living ancestor, forefather or progenitor, in Meitei culture.
3. A Meitei ethnic male given name.
4. (Apokpa Mapu) The supreme being in Meitei folklore, mythology and religion.
5. (Apokpa Marup) A Meitei socioreligious group, adhering to the revivalism of Sanamahism faith and Meetei script, from their previous states of extinction to proliferation, founded in 1930, in Cachar, Assam.