সফেদ
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Bengali
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- সুফেদ (śuphed)
Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Classical Persian سفید (safēd), from earlier سپید (sapēd), from Middle Persian spyt' (spēd, “white”), from Proto-Iranian *cwaytáh, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ćwaytás, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱweytós (“bright; shine”) (compare Old Church Slavonic свѣтъ (světŭ), Old English hwīt (“white”)). Cognate with Arabic سِبِيدَاج (sibīdāj) and Ottoman Turkish اوستبج (üstübec). Doublet of শ্বেত (śśet).
The meaning of sapodilla or sapota was borrowed from Portuguese sapota.
Adjective
[edit]সফেদ • (śophed) (comparative আরও সফেদ, superlative সবচেয়ে সফেদ)
- white (colour)
Noun
[edit]সফেদ • (śophed) (objective সফেদ (śophed) or সফেদকে (śophedoke), genitive সফেদের (śopheder), locative সফেদে (śophede))
- chalk
- Synonym: সফেদা (śopheda)
- ceruse, white lead
- flour
- sapodilla, sapota (semantics from Portuguese sapota)
Derived terms
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সাদা (śada) | ধূসর (dhuśor) | কালো (kalō) |
লাল (lal); আলহামরা (alhamra) | কমলা (komola); বাদামি (badami) | হলুদ (holud); পিয়াজী (piẏaji) |
টিয়া (ṭiẏa) | সবুজ (śobuj) | বাসন্তী (baśonti); জলপাই (jolpai) |
পেস্ট (pesṭ), ময়ূরকণ্ঠী (moẏurkonṭhi); শরশীরী (śorśiri) | আকাশি (akaśi), আসমানী (aśomani) | নীল (nil) |
বেগুনি (beguni); নীল (nil) | ম্যাজেন্টা (mêjenṭa); বেগুনি (beguni) | গোলাপি (gōlapi) |
References
[edit]- Accessible Dictionary, “সফেদ” Bengali-English, Government of Bangladesh
- Accessible Dictionary, “সুফেদ, সফেদ” Bengali-Bengali, Government of Bangladesh
Categories:
- Bengali terms borrowed from Classical Persian
- Bengali terms derived from Classical Persian
- Bengali terms derived from Middle Persian
- Bengali terms derived from Proto-Iranian
- Bengali terms derived from Proto-Indo-Iranian
- Bengali terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Bengali doublets
- Bengali terms borrowed from Portuguese
- Bengali terms derived from Portuguese
- Bengali lemmas
- Bengali adjectives
- Bengali terms with usage examples
- Bengali nouns