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Bengali is typically thought to have around 100,000 separate words, of which 16,000 (16%) are considered to be তদ্ভব tôdbhôbô, or Tadbhava (inherited Indo-Aryan vocabulary), 40,000 (40%) are তৎসম tôtśômô or Tatsama (words directly borrowed from Sanskrit), and borrowings from দেশী deśi, or "indigenous" words, which are at around 16,000 (16%) of the Bengali ...
Pressing hands together with a smile to greet namaste – a common cultural gesture in India. Namaste (Sanskrit pronunciation:, [1] Devanagari: नमस्ते), sometimes called namaskār and namaskāram, is a customary Hindu [2] [3] [4] manner of respectfully greeting and honouring a person or group, used at any time of day. [5]
Alhamdulillah (Arabic: ٱلْحَمْدُ لِلَّٰهِ, al-Ḥamdu lillāh) is an Arabic phrase meaning "praise be to God", [1] sometimes translated as "thank God" or "thanks be to the Lord". [2] This phrase is called Tahmid (Arabic: تَحْمِيد , lit.
Bengali pronouns do not differentiate for gender; that is, the same pronoun may be used for "he" or "she". However, Bengali has different third-person pronouns for proximity. The first are used for someone who is present in the discussion, and the second are for those who are nearby but not present in the discussion.
"Thank you, I will" or "Thank you" Serbian: Наздравље (Nazdravie) Pis Maco, which is mostly used with children "To your health" "Go away kitten" (as the sound of sneezing is said to sound like a cat's cough) Хвала Less frequently: Истина or Здравље да имаш "Thank you" Less frequently: "It is true" or "Health you ...
Thank You, by Nicoleta Alexandru, 2009; Thank You, by Puffy AmiYumi, 2011; Thank You or the title song, by Ray Boltz, 1988; EPs. Thank You (Brave Girls EP) or the ...
The Bengali Wikipedia now has 161,328 articles on various topics with 1,214 active editors per month. As of January 2019, Bengali Wikipedia is the only online free encyclopedia written in the Bengali language. [29] [30] It is also one of the largest Bengali content related sites on the internet. [31]
Some variants of Bengali, particularly Chittagonian and Chakma Bengali, have contrastive tone; differences in the pitch of the speaker's voice can distinguish words. In dialects such as Hajong of northern Bangladesh, there is a distinction between উ and ঊ , the first corresponding exactly to its standard counterpart but the latter ...