পুঙ্খানুপুঙ্খ
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Bengali
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Compound of পুঙ্খ (puṅkho) + অনু (onu) + পুঙ্খ (puṅkho), literally “arrow after arrow”, from Sanskrit पुङ्ख (puṅkha, “feathered rear of an arrow”) and अनु (anu, “after”); semantic shift from "continuous shooting of arrows" to "(any) continuous action" to "thorough (action)" (and from that, also "detailed").
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]পুঙ্খানুপুঙ্খ • (puṅkhanupuṅkho) (comparative আরও পুঙ্খানুপুঙ্খ, superlative সবচেয়ে পুঙ্খানুপুঙ্খ)
- thorough; attentive to minute details; minutely scrutinizing
- detailed
- পুঙ্খানুপুঙ্খ বর্ণনা ― puṅkhanupuṅkho bornona ― detailed depiction