বোতাম
Bengali
Etymology
Borrowed from Portuguese botão, from Old French bouton (“button, bud”), from Vulgar Latin *bautōnem, accusative of bautō, from Proto-West Germanic *bautō (“bump, knob”), from *bautan (“to beat, push”).
Noun
বোতাম • (bōtam)
Derived terms
- বোতাম লাগানো (bōtam laganō, “to button up”)
Further reading
- Sen, Sukumar (1971) An Etymological Dictionary of Bengali: c. 1000-1800 A.D., Calcutta: Eastern Publishers, page 693.
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