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  2. Ghosts in Bengali culture - Wikipedia

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    The word Begho comes from the Bengali word "বাঘ", meaning 'tiger'. According to the beliefs of people living in and around the Sunderbans, Begho Bhoot are ghosts of people who were killed or eaten by the tigers in Sundarbans, which is also known as the Royal Bengal Tiger Sanctuary of the Bengal region. Local folktale suggests that these ...

  3. List of phobias - Wikipedia

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    The English suffixes -phobia, -phobic, -phobe (from Greek φόβος phobos, "fear") occur in technical usage in psychiatry to construct words that describe irrational, abnormal, unwarranted, persistent, or disabling fear as a mental disorder (e.g. agoraphobia), in chemistry to describe chemical aversions (e.g. hydrophobic), in biology to describe organisms that dislike certain conditions (e.g ...

  4. Paschimbanga Bangla Akademi - Wikipedia

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    Performing research-oriented works on Bengali language, literature and culture as well as arranging scholarships for researchers. Distribution of civil literary prizes. Publication of publish books on different subjects; Publication of the Akademi Magazine. Preservation of an outstanding library. Preservation of a world-class archive and museum.

  5. Contronym - Wikipedia

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    A contronym is a word with two opposite meanings. For example, the word original can mean "authentic, traditional", or "novel, never done before". This feature is also called enantiosemy, [1] [2] enantionymy (enantio-means "opposite"), antilogy or autoantonymy. An enantiosemic term is by definition polysemic.

  6. Category:Bengali words and phrases - Wikipedia

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    Category: Bengali words and phrases. 6 languages. ... This category is not for articles about concepts and things but only for articles about the words themselves ...

  7. Bengali vocabulary - Wikipedia

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    Bengali is typically thought to have around 100,000 separate words, of which 16,000 (16%) are considered to be তদ্ভব tôdbhôbô, or Tadbhava (inherited Indo-Aryan vocabulary), 40,000 (40%) are তৎসম tôtśômô or Tatsama (words directly borrowed from Sanskrit), and borrowings from দেশী deśi, or "indigenous" words, which are at around 16,000 (16%) of the Bengali ...

  8. Cross-linguistic onomatopoeias - Wikipedia

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    Because of the nature of onomatopoeia, there are many words which show a similar pronunciation in the languages of the world. The following is a list of some conventional examples: The following is a list of some conventional examples:

  9. Segunbagicha - Wikipedia

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    Segunbagicha is a junction of two Bengali words, Segun (Bengali: সেগুন, romanised: Shegun), meaning teak (Tectona grandis), which is a species of plant native to South and Southeast Asia and Bagicha (Bengali: বাগিচা, romanised: Bagicha), meaning garden. Therefore, the name "Segunbagicha" literally translates to "The Garden ...