কেবল

Bengali

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit কেৱল (kevala). Compare Assamese কেবল (kebol), Odia କେବଳ (kebôḷô), Hindustani کیول / केवल (keval).

Pronunciation
  • (Rarh) IPA(key): /kebol/, [ˈkebol]
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  • (Dhaka) IPA(key): /kebol/, [ˈkebol]

Adjective

কেবল • (kebol)

  1. (theology, philosophy) only, sole, absolute
    Synonyms: মাত্র (matro), শুধু (śudhu)
  2. pure, unsullied
    Synonym: শুধু (śudhu)
  3. unchanging

Adverb

কেবল • (kebol)

  1. just, just now
  2. incessantly

Derived terms
  • কেবলই (keboloi)

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