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Derived from Arabic بَدَل (badal, “substitution”).
বদলে • (bôdole) (with genitive case)
- instead[1]
গেঞ্জির বদলে সার্ট পড়েছে- genjir bôdole sarţ poṛeche
- (He/She/It/They, neutral, informal) wore a shirt instead of a vest.
- ^ Hanne-Ruth Thompson (2012) chapter 5, in Theodora Bynon,David C. Bennet,Masayoshi Shibatani, editors, Bengali, volume 18, John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 105