কথ্য

Bengali

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit কথ্য (kathya). Compare Assamese কথ্য (kothyo), Odia କଥ୍ୟ (kôthyô), Hindi कथ्य (kathya).

Pronunciation

• (Rarh) IPA^(key): /kot̪ʰːo/, [ˈkot̪ʰːoˑ]

• (Dhaka) IPA^(key): /kot̪ʰːo/, [ˈkot̪ʰːoˑ]

Adjective

কথ্য • (kottho) (comparative আরও কথ্য, superlative সবচেয়ে কথ্য)

1. utterable, speakable
2. to be told, to be spoken
3. (linguistics) colloquial, oral

Derived terms

• অকথ্য (okottho)

 

References

• Subhasha Bhattacarya, Sailendra Biswas, Sailendra Biswas, and Jnanendramohana Dasa (2022) “কথ্য”, in Digital Dictionaries of South India [Combined Bengali Dictionaries]
• Accessible Dictionary, কথ্য, Bengali-English Dictionary, Government of Bangladesh