কিপটা
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Bengali[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Semi-learned borrowing from Sanskrit कृपण (kṛpaṇa, “miserable”), with semantic shift comparable to that of English miser, as misers were thought to be miserable in life.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
কিপটা • (kipṭa) (comparative আরও কিপটা, superlative সবচেয়ে কিপটা)
Derived terms[edit]
- কিপটুস (kipṭuś)
References[edit]
- Chatterji, Suniti Kumar (1926) The Origin and Development of the Bengali Language[1], volume 1, Calcutta: Calcutta University Press, page 527