কিপটা
Bengali edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Semi-learned borrowing from Sanskrit कृपण (kṛpaṇa, “miserable”), with semantic shift comparable to that of English miser, as misers were thought to be miserable in life.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
কিপটা • (kipṭa) (comparative আরও কিপটা, superlative সবচেয়ে কিপটা)
Derived terms edit
- কিপটুস (kipṭuś)
References edit
- Chatterji, Suniti Kumar (1926) The Origin and Development of the Bengali Language[1], volume 1, Calcutta: Calcutta University Press, page 527