Noun:

मयख़ाना, शराबख़ाना, झोंपड़ा, कुटिया, मड़ई,

ashanti's Usage Examples:

"From the hour Governor Torrane delivered up Tchibbu [one of the Assin fugitives] I took the English for my friends," said the king of Ashanti, "because I saw their object was trade only and they did not care for the people.

The governor also agreed to pay rent to the Ashanti for Anamabo fort and Cape Coast castle.

A great part of Ashanti is covered with primeval and almost impenetrable forest.1 Many of the trees, chiefly silk-cotton and hardwood, attain splendid proportions, the bombax reaching a height of over 200 ft., but the monotony is oppressive, and is seldom relieved by the sight of flowers, birds or beasts.

ASHANTI, a British possession in West Africa, bounded W.

At his own urgent request Prince Henry of Battenberg, the queen's son-in-law, was permitted to join the Ashanti expedition, and early in January the prince was struck down with fever.

The best known are Koroko, Kong and Bona, entrepots for the trade of the middle Niger, and Bontuku, on the caravan route to Sokoto and the meeting-place of the merchants from Kong and Timbuktu engaged in the kola-nut trade with Ashanti and the Gold Coast.

There are a few Mahommedans in Ashanti, most of them traders from other countries, and the Basel and Wesleyan missionaries have obtained some converts to Christianity; but the great bulk of the people are spirit-worshippers.

In their course through Ashanti, the rivers, apart from the Volta, are navigable by canoes only.

The Assinis are of Ashanti origin, and chiefly of the Ochin and Agni tribes.

The Ashanti are skilful in several species of manufacture, particularly in weaving cotton.