বোতাম
Bengali edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Portuguese botão, from Old French bouton (“button, bud”), from Vulgar Latin *bautōnem, accusative of bautō, from Proto-West Germanic *bautō (“bump, knob”), from *bautan (“to beat, push”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
বোতাম • (bōtam)
Derived terms edit
- বোতাম লাগানো (bōtam laganō, “to button up”)
Descendants edit
Further reading edit
- Sen, Sukumar (1971) An Etymological Dictionary of Bengali: c. 1000-1800 A.D.[1], Calcutta: Eastern Publishers, page 693.