সুন্দরী

Bengali
সুন্দরী (Heritiera fomes)

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit सुन्दरी (sundarī), feminine form of सुन्दर (sundara, “beautiful”).[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ʃund̪ɔɾi/

Noun

সুন্দরী • (śundori)

  1. beautiful girl or woman[1]
  2. sundri (Heritiera fomes, syn. H. minor Roxb.)[2]
    Synonym: সুন্দর গাছ (śundor gach)

Derived terms

(Proper nouns)

References
  1. Haughton, Graves C. (1833) A Dictionary, Bengálí and Sanskrit, Explained in English, and Adapted for Students of Either Language‎, London: J. L. Cox & Son, page 2655
  2. মিত্র, সতীশচন্দ্র (1963) যশোহর-খুল্নার ইতিহাস‎ (in Bengali), শিবশঙ্কর মিত্র, page 89
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