পাবনা

Bengali edit

Etymology edit

Probably from পাবনী (paboni), from Sanskrit पावनी (pāvanī, “Ganges”, literally “purifier”), as the Sanskrit name was later used to mean the eastern branches of the Ganges.^[1]

Pronunciation edit

(Rarh) IPA^(key): /pabna/, [ˈpabnaˑ]
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(Dhaka) IPA^(key): /pabna/, [ˈpabnaˑ]

Proper noun edit

পাবনা • (pabna) (objective পাবনা (pabona) or পাবনাকে (pabnake), genitive পাবনার (pabonar), locative পাবনায় (pabonaẏ) or পাবনাতে (pabnate))

Pabna (a city in the Pabna District, Bangladesh)
Pabna District (a district of Bangladesh)

Derived terms edit

পাবনাইয়া (pabnaiẏa)

References edit

^ “'পাবনা'র নেপথ্যে যত জনশ্রুতি”, in Bangla Tribune‎^[1] (in Bengali), 2023 July 5 (last accessed)

[1] “'পাবনা'র নেপথ্যে যত জনশ্রুতি”, in Bangla Tribune‎^[1] (in Bengali), 2023 July 5 (last accessed)

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