সহি
Middle Bengali
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Classical Persian صَحِیح (sahīh), with a semantic narrowing in Indian Persian,[1] from Arabic صَحِيح (ṣaḥīḥ, “correct, valid”). First attested in the 18th century[1].
Noun
[edit]সহি (śohi)[1]
- signature (formal approval)
Descendants
[edit]- Bengali: সই (śoi)
References
[edit]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Sen, Sukumar (1971) An Etymological Dictionary of Bengali: c. 1000-1800 A.D.[1], volume 2, Calcutta: Eastern Publishers, page 864.
Further reading
[edit]- Atindra Mojumder (1981) “সই/সহি”, in Arabic, Persian and Turkish Words in Bengali Literature, Melbourne: University of Melbourne; republished 15 Shyama Charan Dey Street, Kolkata 700073: Ekush Shatak, 2012, page 465
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- Middle Bengali terms derived from Arabic
- Middle Bengali terms derived from the Arabic root ص ح ح
- Middle Bengali terms borrowed from Classical Persian
- Middle Bengali terms derived from Classical Persian
- Middle Bengali words that have undergone semantic narrowing
- Middle Bengali lemmas
- Middle Bengali nouns
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