Borrowed from Classical Persian بجای (ba-jāy, “instead”). Compare Odia ବଜାୟ୍ (bôjay), Hindustani بجائے / बजाय (bajāy).
বজায় • (bojaẏ)
- in force, in position, intact
- বজায় রাখা ― bojaẏ rakha ― to keep going, to maintain
- in place of
- Subhasha Bhattacarya, Sailendra Biswas, Sailendra Biswas, and Jnanendramohana Dasa (2022) “bajāẏa”, in Digital Dictionaries of South India [Combined Bengali Dictionaries]
- Accessible Dictionary, Bengali-English, বজায়, Government of Bangladesh