Glossary Term
Risk: Critical- Approved rendering
- आफा
- Transliteration
- afa
- Rejected alternatives
- बाथौबुरै (reserve strictly for describing traditional belief, never for the biblical Father)
Father
God as personal Father; आफा is the ordinary Bodo word for father, chosen for its warmth and intimacy rather than an inherited deity-elder title such as बाथौबुरै.