বিয়ান

Bengali

Alternative forms

• বেয়ান (beẏan)

Etymology

Inherited from Middle Bengali বিহান (bihan), from an earlier বিহানী (bihani), from Prakrit *𑀯𑀺𑀆𑀳𑀺𑀦𑀻 (*viāhinī), from Sanskrit *विवाहिनी (vivāhinī, “(one) aligned by marriage”), from विवाह (vivāha, “marriage”) +‎ -इनी (-inī). Cognate with Assamese বিয়নী (bini), Gujarati વહેવણ (vahevaṇ), વેહ્વણ (vehvaṇ), Marathi विहीण (vihīṇ). Doublet of বিয়াই (biẏai), বিয়ে (biẏe), and বিবাহ (bibaho).

Pronunciation

• (Rarh) IPA^(key): /bi̯an/, [ˈbi̯an]

• (Dhaka) IPA^(key): /bi̯an/, [ˈbi̯an]

Noun

বিয়ান • (biẏan)

1. son's or daughter's mother-in-law

References

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