হিন্দুস্তান
Assamese
editProper noun
editহিন্দুস্তান • (hindustan)
Bengali
editAlternative forms
edit- হিন্দুস্থান (hindusthan)
Etymology
editInherited from Middle Bengali হিন্দুস্তান (hindustan), from Classical Persian هندوستان (hindūstān).
Pronunciation
edit- (Dhaka) IPA(key): /hind̪ust̪an/, [hind̪ust̪an]
- (Vanga) IPA(key): /hind̪ust̪an/, [hind̪ust̪an], [hind̪ust̪an], /xind̪ust̪an/, [xind̪ust̪an], [xind̪ust̪an]
Proper noun
editহিন্দুস্তান • (hindustan)
- Synonym of ভারত (bharot)
- (colloquial) North India
Related terms
edit- হিন্দুস্তান জিন্দাবাদ (hindustan jindabad)
Middle Bengali
editAlternative forms
edit- হিন্দুস্থান (hindusthan)
Etymology
editBorrowed from Classical Persian هندوستان (hindūstān). Compare Old Punjabi ਹਿੰਦੁਸਤਾਨੁ (hindusatānu).
Noun
editহিন্দুস্তান (hindustan)
Descendants
edit- Bengali: হিন্দুস্তান (hindustan), হিন্দুস্থান (hindusthan)
Further reading
edit- Sen, Sukumar (1971) An Etymological Dictionary of Bengali: c. 1000-1800 A.D.[1], Calcutta: Eastern Publishers, page 929.
Categories:
- Assamese lemmas
- Assamese proper nouns
- Bengali terms inherited from Middle Bengali
- Bengali terms derived from Middle Bengali
- Bengali terms derived from Classical Persian
- Bengali terms with IPA pronunciation
- Bengali lemmas
- Bengali proper nouns
- Bengali colloquialisms
- Middle Bengali terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Middle Bengali terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *steh₂-
- Middle Bengali terms derived from Middle Persian
- Middle Bengali terms derived from Old Persian
- Middle Bengali terms derived from Proto-Iranian
- Middle Bengali terms derived from Proto-Indo-Iranian
- Middle Bengali terms borrowed from Classical Persian
- Middle Bengali terms derived from Classical Persian
- Middle Bengali lemmas
- Middle Bengali nouns