Bengali

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Sanskrit শাসন (śāsana). Compare Assamese শাসন (xaxon), Odia ଶାସନ (śāsana), Nepali शासन (śāsan), Hindustani ساسن / शासन (śāsan), and also Mongolian шашин (šašin), Burmese သာသနာ (sasa.na), Khmer សាសនា (saasnaa), Thai ศาสนา (sàat-sà-nǎa), Indonesian sasana.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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শাসন (śaśon)

  1. reign. rule
  2. management, government
  3. edict, commandment
  4. punishment. chastisement

Declension

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Inflection of শাসন
nominative শাসন
śaśon
objective শাসনকে
śaśon (semantically general or indefinite) / śaśonke (semantically definite)
genitive শাসনের
śaśoner
Indefinite forms
nominative শাসন
śaśon
objective শাসনকে
śaśon (semantically general or indefinite) / śaśonke (semantically definite)
genitive শাসনের
śaśoner
Definite forms
singular plural
nominative শাসনটা, শাসনটি
śaśonṭa (colloquial), śaśonṭi (formal)
শাসনেরা
śaśonera
objective শাসনটাকে, শাসনটিকে
śaśonṭake (colloquial), śaśonṭike (formal)
শাসনদের(কে)
śaśonder(ke)
genitive শাসনটার, শাসনটির
śaśonṭar (colloquial), śaśonṭir (formal)
শাসনদের
śaśonder
Objective Note: In some dialects -রে (-re) marks this case instead of -কে (-ke).

References

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  • Subhasha Bhattacarya, Sailendra Biswas, Sailendra Biswas, and Jnanendramohana Dasa (2022) “শাসন”, in Digital Dictionaries of South India [Combined Bengali Dictionaries]