পুখরী
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Middle Bengali[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- পুখরি (pukhori), পুখুরী (pukhuri), পোখরী (pōkhori), পোখরি (pōkhori)
- পুকর (pukor), পুখর (pukhor), পোখর (pōkhor)
Etymology[edit]
Inherited from Old Bengali পোখিরী (pokhirī), from Magadhi Prakrit 𑀧𑁄𑀓𑁆𑀔𑀭 (pokkhara, “lotus pond”) + Middle Indo-Aryan -𑀇- (-i-), from Sanskrit पौष्कर (pauṣkara), vriddhi of पुष्कर (puṣkara, “blue lotus”), from the root पुष् (puṣ, “to thrive”). Cognate with Early Assamese পোখৰী (pökhorī).
Noun[edit]
পুখরী (pukhori)
Descendants[edit]
- Bengali: পুকুর (pukur)
Further reading[edit]
- Sen, Sukumar (1971) An Etymological Dictionary of Bengali: c. 1000-1800 A.D.[1], Calcutta: Eastern Publishers, page 572.
Categories:
- Middle Bengali terms inherited from Old Bengali
- Middle Bengali terms derived from Old Bengali
- Middle Bengali terms inherited from Magadhi Prakrit
- Middle Bengali terms derived from Magadhi Prakrit
- Middle Bengali terms extended with Indo-Aryan -𑀇-
- Middle Bengali terms inherited from Sanskrit
- Middle Bengali terms derived from Sanskrit
- Middle Bengali lemmas
- Middle Bengali nouns