বোষ্টম

Bengali

Etymology

Inherited from Old Bengali *বৈষ্টৱঁ (*baiṣṭavã), an ardhatatsama from Sanskrit वैष्णव (vaiṣṇava).

Pronunciation

• (Rarh) IPA^(key): /boʃʈɔm/, [ˈboʂʈɔm]

• (Dhaka) IPA^(key): /boʃtɔm/, [ˈboʃtɔm], [ˈbostɔm]

Proper noun

বোষ্টম • (bōśṭom)

1. Vaishnava

References

• Chatterji, Suniti Kumar (1926) The Origin and Development of the Bengali Language‎^[1], volume 1, Calcutta: Calcutta University Press, page 527