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  2. Bengali name - Wikipedia

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    The two names may or may not be at all related; for example, a man named "Shumon" or "Sumon" or "Suman" (Bengali: সুমন) may be called by his dak nam (e.g. Bengali: বুবাই, romanized: Bubai) at home and by his bhalo nam (Bengali: সুমন, romanized: Shumon) elsewhere. Many people also have a shortened version of their bhalo ...

  3. Bengalis - Wikipedia

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    Begum Rokeya (1880–1932) was the leading female Bengali author of this period, best known for writing Sultana's Dream which was subsequently translated into numerous languages. Marriage The application of mehndi onto one's hand hosts a ceremony of itself during Bengali wedding seasons.

  4. Bong (term) - Wikipedia

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    One Bengali is a poet, two Bengalis are a film society, three Bengalis are a political party and four Bengalis are two political parties! [12] One common stereotype is that Bongs are invariably fish eaters and often referred to as Machher Jhol, literally meaning fish curry in Bengali. [13] Bengali women are stereotyped as having big round eyes.

  5. Women in Bangladesh - Wikipedia

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    Female wage rates in the 1980s were low, typically ranging between 20 and 30 percent of male wage rates. In 2019 Bangladesh's highest court ruled that on marriage registration forms, a word used to describe unmarried women that can also mean "virgin" must be replaced with a word that only means "an unmarried woman".

  6. Old Bengali - Wikipedia

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    Old Bengali was the earliest recorded form of the Bengali ... Old Bengali Modern Bengali English meaning āiśa eso (you) come ... male or female. [12] Literature

  7. Culture of Bengal - Wikipedia

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    Pohela Baishakh celebration in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The culture of Bengal defines the cultural heritage of the Bengali people native to eastern regions of the Indian subcontinent, mainly what is today Bangladesh and the Indian states of West Bengal and Tripura, where they form the dominant ethnolinguistic group and the Bengali language is the official and primary language.

  8. Amit - Wikipedia

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    Amit is a Hindu and Jewish given name. [1]In Hindi, Amit (Hindi: अमित, means "infinite" or "boundless", Bengali: অমিত) originates from the Sanskrit word amita (अमित:), [2] amita (अमित:) essentially is the negation of mita (मित), which means "to measure".

  9. Chandravati (poet) - Wikipedia

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    Chandravati was born in a Bengali Brahmin family to Dwij-Banshidas Bhattacharya and Anjana Devi, in circa 1550 CE in the village of Patuyari, on the banks of the Fulesshori river in Kishoreganj which is currently located in Dhaka division of Bangladesh. [2] Bansidas was a composer of Manasa's ballads known as Manasar Bhasan.