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).

Pronunciation

  • (Rarh) IPA(key): /bot̪am/, [ˈbot̪am]
  • (Dhaka) IPA(key): /bot̪am/, [ˈbot̪am]

Noun

বোতাম • (bōtam)

  1. button
    শার্টের বোতাম লাগাও
    śarṭer bōtam lagaō.
    Button up your shirt.
    (literally, “Attach the button to your shirt.”)

Derived terms

  • বোতাম লাগানো (bōtam laganō, to button up)

Descendants

  • Assamese: বুটাম (butam), গুদাম (gudam)
  • Sylheti: ꠉꠥꠔꠣꠝ (gutam)

Further reading

  • Sen, Sukumar (1971) An Etymological Dictionary of Bengali: c. 1000-1800 A.D., Calcutta: Eastern Publishers, page 693.
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