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  2. Paschimbanga Bangla Akademi - Wikipedia

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    It endeavored to compile standard Bengali dictionary, grammar and terminologies, both philosophical and scientific, to collect and publish old and medieval Bengali manuscripts, and to carry out translation from other language into Bengali and research on history, philosophy and science.

  3. 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 ...

  4. List of dictionaries by number of words - Wikipedia

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    Oxford English Dictionary, Second Edition Oxford Dictionary has 273,000 headwords; 171,476 of them being in current use, 47,156 being obsolete words and around 9,500 derivative words included as subentries. The dictionary contains 157,000 combinations and derivatives, and 169,000 phrases and combinations, making a total of over 600,000 word-forms.

  5. Google Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    In January 2018, a "Similar-sounding words" feature was added to the English dictionary which highlights words that sound similar such as "aesthetic" and "ascetic", "pray" and "prey", "conscientious" and "conscious" etc. [20] "Google Word Coach" vocabulary game was made available along with dictionary searches and as a separate game on mobile ...

  6. Adda (South Asian) - Wikipedia

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    Adda was incorporated into the Oxford English Dictionary in 2004. This word is both a standalone noun and a noun in a noun- verb compound, in Bengali . The nominalization of the word has two senses — one being the Hindi sense, and the other being the place of ritual meeting and/or conversation of a group of people (i.e., a symposium).

  7. Category:Bengali words and phrases - Wikipedia

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    This category is not for articles about concepts and things but only for articles about the words themselves. Please keep this category purged of everything that is not actually an article about a word or phrase. See as example Category:English words.

  8. Bengali language - Wikipedia

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    The rest are বিদেশী bideśi or "foreign" sources, including Persian, Turkish, Arabic, and English among others, accounting for around 28,000 (28%) of all Bengali words, highlighting the significant influence that foreign languages and cultures have had on the Bengali language throughout Bengal's long history of contact with ...

  9. Bangladeshi English - Wikipedia

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    Bangladeshi English is an English accent heavily influenced by the Bengali language and its dialects in Bangladesh. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] This variety is very common among Bengalis from Bangladesh . The code-mixed usage of Bengali/Bangla and English is known as Benglish or Banglish .