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করঞ্জ

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করঞ্জ

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Sanskrit करञ्ज (karañja).[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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করঞ্জ (koronjo)

  1. poonga oil tree, Indian beech, seashore mempari (Pongamia pinnata, syn. Galedupa arborea,[1] Pongamia glabra[2])

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References

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  1. 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
  2. ^ 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