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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 ...
The origin of tatsama words (Bengali: তৎসম, romanized: tôtśômô) in Bengali is traced to 10th century poets.Another, more minor, wave of tatsama vocabulary entered the (Modern) Bengali language by Sanskrit scholars teaching at Fort William College in Kolkata at the start of the 19th century.
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Ruposhi Bangla (Bengali: রূপসী বাংলা, Beautiful Bengal) is the most popular collection of poems by Jibanananda Das, the great modern Bengali poet. [1] [2] Written in 1934, the sixty-two sonnets - discovered in an exercise-book twenty years after Das wrote them - achieved instant popularity on their posthumous publication in 1957, [3] becoming a totemic symbol of freedom in ...
Her poetry, known as Khanar Bachan (or vachan) (Bengali: খনার বচন; meaning 'khana's words'), among the earliest compositions in Bengali literature, is known for its agricultural themes. [1] The short couplets or quatrains reflect a robust common sense, as in this paean to industry: thakte balad na kare chas tar dukhkha baro mas
Popularly called "Rupashi Banglar Kabi'' ('Poet of Beautiful Bengal'), [2] [3] Das is the most read Bengali poet after Rabindranath Tagore and Kazi Nazrul Islam in Bangladesh and West Bengal. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] While not particularly well recognised during his lifetime, today Das is acknowledged as one of the greatest poets in the Bengali language.
The word kantha has no discernible etymological root. [10] The exact origin of the word is not precisely known, although it probably has a precursor in kheta (meaning "field" in Bengali). [11] According to Niaz Zaman, the word kantha originates from the Sanskrit word kontha, which means rags, as kantha is made of rags. [12]
"Bidrohi" (Bengali: "বিদ্রোহী"; English: "The Rebel") is a popular revolutionary Bengali poem and the most famous poem written by Kazi Nazrul Islam in December 1921. [1] [2] [3] Originally published in several periodicals, the poem was first collected in October 1922 in a volume titled Agnibeena: the first anthology of Nazrul's ...