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The Dar al-Muwaqqit of the al-Qarawiyyin Mosque (marked by the double-arched window overlooking the courtyard). A Dar al-Muwaqqit (Arabic: دار المؤقت), or muvakkithane in Turkish, is a room or structure accompanying a mosque which was used by the muwaqqit or timekeeper, an officer charged with maintaining the correct times of prayer and communicating them to the muezzin (the person ...
The second edition was released in 1997, [1] followed by an expanded, refined, and revised third edition in 2011, published by the Bangla Academy. [3] The second edition incorporated portraits of approximately 700 prominent individuals and provided insights into the lives of nearly 1,000 notable Bengali intellectuals and luminaries. [citation ...
William Goldsack (1871–1957 [1]) was an Australian Baptist Missionary Society missionary to East Bengal (present day Bangladesh), India. [2] [3] [4] [5]He authored several books, like Christ in Islam, Muhammad in Islam, and chiefly notable for undertaking the translation of Quran, also spelled Koran, into Bengali language.
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 ...
The muvakkithane ("lodge of the muwaqqit") in Hagia Sophia, Istanbul. In the history of Islam, a muwaqqit (Arabic: مُوَقَّت, more rarely ميقاتي mīqātī; Turkish: muvakit) was an astronomer tasked with the timekeeping and the regulation of prayer times in an Islamic institution like a mosque or a madrasa.
Mustafa ibn Ali al-Muwaqqit (died 1571, the epithet al-Muwaqqit means "the timekeeper"), also known as Müneccimbaşı Mustafa Çelebi and Koca Saatçi, was an Ottoman astronomer and author of geography from the sixteenth century. Because of his works on the science of timekeeping and practical astronomy, he is considered "the founder of the ...
The word for younger brother-in-law, shala (শালা) in Standard Bengali and hala (হালা) in Dhakaiya Kutti Bengali and other eastern dialects, is seen as offensive in almost all Bengali dialects except in the Dhakaiya Kutti dialect this is a common and inoffensive word which can be applied to teachers, parents and animals.
Arabic has also influenced the Bengali language greatly, [11] thus it is not uncommon to hear Arabic terminology in Bangladeshi speeches and rallies. One example of this is the 7 March Speech of Bangabandhu , which makes mention of Inshallah ('God-willing') towards the end, in addition to the many Arabic-origin Bengali words used.