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পিক

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Assamese

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Indo-Aryan. Compare Sylheti ꠙꠤꠇ (fik), Bengali পিক (pik, spit), Hindi पीक (pīk, juice of betel), Gujarati પિક (pik, saliva).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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পিক (pik)

  1. juice from paan (a snack made from betel leaf) that is often spat out

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Derived terms

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References

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  • Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “pikkā”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press