কূল

Bengali

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit कूल (kūla, “declivity, shore”).

Noun

কূল • (kul)

  1. bank, shore, coast
    কী আঁচল বিছায়েছ বটের মূলে, নদীর কূলে কূলে।
    ki ãcol bichaẏech boṭer mule, nodir kule kule.
    What a quilt you have spread out at the feet of banyans, along every river bank.
    —Rabindranath Tagore
  2. border, edge
  3. end, boundary, limit

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