মেদিনীপুর
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Bengali
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From মেদিনী (medinī), from Middle Bengali মাদানী (madani, “Medinan”) which is ultimately from Arabic مَدَنِيّ (madaniyy), + পুর (pur, “city”), from Sanskrit पुर (pura). Named after the 17th-century scholar Haji Mustafa Madani.[1]
Proper noun
[edit]মেদিনীপুর • (medinīpur) (objective মেদিনীপুর (medinipur) or মেদিনীপুরকে (medinipurke), genitive মেদিনীপুরের (medinipurer), locative মেদিনীপুরে (medinipure))
- Midnapore
- A city in West Bengal.
- A former district of West Bengal.
Derived terms
[edit]- মেদিনীপুরী (medinīpurī)
References
[edit]- ^ Shahidullah, Muhammad (1963 February) “হজরত মৌলানা শাহ সুফী মুহম্মদ আবূ বকর সিদীকী (রঃ)”, in ইসলাম প্রসঙ্গ (in Bengali), 1 edition, Dacca: Mawla Brothers
Categories:
- Bengali terms inherited from Middle Bengali
- Bengali terms derived from Middle Bengali
- Bengali terms derived from Arabic
- Bengali terms derived from Sanskrit
- Bengali lemmas
- Bengali proper nouns
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- bn:Cities in India
- bn:Places in West Bengal
- bn:Places in India
- bn:Historical political subdivisions