বোতাম

Bengali

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese botão, from Old French bouton (“button, bud”), from Vulgar Latin *bautōnem, accusative of bautō, from Proto-West Germanic *bautō (“bump, knob”), from *bautan (“to beat, push”).

Pronunciation

• (Rarh) IPA^(key): /bot̪am/, [ˈbot̪am]

• (Dhaka) IPA^(key): /bot̪am/, [ˈbot̪am]

Noun

বোতাম • (bōtam)

1. button

   শার্টের বোতাম লাগাও।

   śarṭer bōtam lagaō.

   Button up your shirt.

   (literally, “Attach the button to your shirt.”)

Derived terms

• বোতাম লাগানো (bōtam laganō, “to button up”)

Descendants

• → Assamese: বুটাম (butam), গুদাম (gudam)
• → Sylheti: ꠉꠥꠔꠣꠝ (gutam)

Further reading

• Sen, Sukumar (1971) An Etymological Dictionary of Bengali: c. 1000-1800 A.D.‎^[1], Calcutta: Eastern Publishers, page 693.