চৌধুরি
Bengali
editAlternative forms
edit- চৌধুরী (cōudhuri)
Etymology
editA variant of the rarer form চৌধরি (cōudhori), from Sanskrit चतुर्धरी (caturdharī, “holder of four”), a compound of चतुर् (catur, “four”) + धर (dhara, “holding”, from धृ (dhṛ, “to hold”)) + -ई (-ī, “doer”), with "four" here representing the total of something (compare চারদিক (cardik, literally "four directions", but used to mean "every direction")).
Pronunciation
edit- (standard) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃou̯.d̪ʱu.ɾi/, [ˈt͡ʃou̯.d̪ʱu.ɾiˑ]
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- (Vanga) IPA(key): /ˈt͡sou̯.d̪ʱu.ɾi/, [ˈt͡sou̯.d̪ʱu.ɾiˑ]
Noun
editচৌধুরি • (cōudhuri)
Proper noun
editচৌধুরি • (cōudhuri)
Further reading
edit- Chatterji, Suniti Kumar (1926) The Origin and Development of the Bengali Language[1], volume 2, Calcutta: Calcutta University Press, page 788
- Sen, Sukumar (1971) An Etymological Dictionary of Bengali: c. 1000-1800 A.D.[2], volume 290, Calcutta: Eastern Publishers.