বাদল

Bengali

Etymology

From Sanskrit वार्दल (vārdala) (compare Hindi बादल (bādal), Gujarati વાદળ (vādaḷ) and Marathi वादळ (vādaḷ)), from वार्द (vārda, “water-giving; rain cloud”), a compound of वार् (vār, “water”) + द (da, “giving”); the first element is from Proto-Indo-Iranian *waHr- (“water; rain”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wer ~ *weh₁r- (“water, rain, flow”). Cognate with Persian باران (“rain”), بارش (whence Hindi बारिश (bāriś)), Ossetian уарын (waryn, “rain”), Avestan 𐬬𐬀𐬭 (var, “rain”), Luwian 𒉿𒀀𒅈 (wār, “water”), Old Norse vari (“liquid, water”), Latvian jūra (“sea”), and Latin ūrīna (whence English urine), Avara. Doublet of বারি (bari).

Noun

বাদল • (badol)

1. cloud; rain

   Synonyms: বৃষ্টি (briśṭi), মেঘ (megh), বাদলা (badola), ঝড়ি (jhoṛi)

   বাদলের মাঝে রহে নয়া পঁহাতের দেখা

   badoler majhe rôhe noẏa põhater dekha

   in amongst the clouds arises the sight of a new dawn

Usage notes

• The concepts of clouds and rain are synonymous and are amalgamated in many dialects.

Related terms

• বাদলা (badola)

References

• Monier Williams (1899) “বাদল”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 943.
• Accessible Dictionary, [1] Government of Bangladesh
• Accessible Dictionary, [2] Government of Bangladesh