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Atel (slang) Ā̃tel (Bengali: আঁতেল) is Bengali term referring to a person who is proficient in academic practice but lacks practical knowledge, [1][2][3] or someone who pretends to be intelligent.
Lizard is the common name used for all squamate reptiles other than snakes (and to a lesser extent amphisbaenians), encompassing over 7,000 species, [1] ranging across all continents except Antarctica, as well as most oceanic island chains. The grouping is paraphyletic as some lizards are more closely related to snakes than they are to other ...
The Indian cobra is a moderately sized, heavy-bodied species. This cobra species can easily be identified by its relatively large and quite impressive hood, which it expands when threatened. Many specimens exhibit a hood mark. This hood mark is located at the rear (dorsal surface) of the Indian cobra's hood.
The word ousted adder, as adder went on to narrow in meaning, though in Old English næddre was the general word for snake. [12] The other term, serpent, is from French, ultimately from Indo-European *serp-'to creep', [13] which also gave Ancient Greek ἕρπω (hérpō) 'I crawl' and Sanskrit sarpá ‘snake’. [14]
A. Ablepharus sikimmensis. Acrochordus granulatus. Ahaetulla prasina. Arakan forest turtle. Arrowback tree snake. Asian forest tortoise. Asian water monitor. Assam leaf turtle.
Some variants of Bengali, particularly Chittagonian and Chakma Bengali, have contrastive tone; differences in the pitch of the speaker's voice can distinguish words. In dialects such as Hajong of northern Bangladesh, there is a distinction between উ and ঊ , the first corresponding exactly to its standard counterpart but the latter ...
The Bengali Wikipedia now has 159,368 articles on various topics with 995 active editors per month. As of January 2019, Bengali Wikipedia is the only online free encyclopedia written in the Bengali language. [29] [30] It is also one of the largest Bengali content related sites on the internet. [31]
Bengali (বাংলা Bangla) is one of the Eastern Indo-Aryan languages, which evolved from Magadhi Prakrit, native to the eastern Indian subcontinent. [1] The core of Bengali vocabulary is thus etymologically of Magadhi Prakrit origin, with significant ancient borrowings from the older substrate language (s) of the region.