বিয়ান
Bengali edit
Alternative forms edit
- বেয়ান (beẏan)
Etymology edit
Inherited from Middle Bengali বিহান (bihan), from an earlier বিহানী (bihani), from Prakrit *𑀯𑀺𑀆𑀳𑀺𑀦𑀻 (*viāhinī), from Sanskrit *विवाहिनी (vivāhinī, “(one) aligned by marriage”), from विवाह (vivāha, “marriage”) + -इनी (-inī). Cognate with Assamese বিয়নী (bini), Gujarati વહેવણ (vahevaṇ), વેહ્વણ (vehvaṇ), Marathi विहीण (vihīṇ). Doublet of বিয়াই (biẏai), বিয়ে (biẏe), and বিবাহ (bibaho).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
বিয়ান • (biẏan)
- son's or daughter's mother-in-law
References edit
- Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “vivāhinī”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press