আহলে জবান
Bengali
editAlternative forms
edit- আহেলে জবান (ahele zôban)
Etymology
editFrom আহেল (ahel, “people”) + জবান (zôban, “language”), each from Classical Persian اهل and Classical Persian زبان (zabān) respectively, with the former ultimately being derived from Arabic أَهْل (ʔahl).
Noun
edit- (linguistics) speaker of the person's mother tongue
- native speaker
References
edit- Accessible Dictionary, “আহেলে জবান” Bengali-Bengali, Government of Bangladesh