করঞ্জ
Appearance
Bengali
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Sanskrit करञ्ज (karañja).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]করঞ্জ • (koronjo)
- poonga oil tree, Indian beech, seashore mempari (Pongamia pinnata, syn. Galedupa arborea,[1] Pongamia glabra[2])
Derived terms
[edit]- পূতিকরঞ্জ (putikronjo)
References
[edit]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Haughton, Graves C. (1833) “করঞ্জ”, in A Dictionary, Bengálí and Sanskrit, Explained in English, and Adapted for Students of Either Language[1], London: J. L. Cox & Son, page 612
- ^ দাস, জ্ঞানেন্দ্রমোহন (1937) “করঞ্জ, -ক”, in Dictionary of the Bengali Language (Self-pronouncing, Etymological & Explanatory) with Appendices (in Bengali), 2nd edition, কলিকাতা: দি ইণ্ডিয়ান্ পাব্লিশিং হাউস, page 438