মেহেরবানি

Bengali

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian مهربانی (mihrbānī). Analysable as মেহেরবান (meherban) +‎ -ই (-i). Cognate with Hindi मेहरबानी (meharbānī), Gujarati મહેરબાની (maherbānī), Punjabi ਮਿਹਰਬਾਨੀ (mihrabānī), Marathi मेहेरबानी (meherbānī).

Pronunciation

• (Rarh) IPA^(key): /meheɾbani/, [ˈmeheɾbaniˑ]

• (Dhaka) IPA^(key): /meheɹbani/, [ˈmeheɹbaniˑ]

Noun

মেহেরবানি • (meherbani)

1. kindness