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17 unusual facts about Bengali language


Adiantum philippense

Adiantum philippense, (Goyali Lota, Kalijhant in Bengali: গয়ালী লতা, Hamsapadi, Kitamata, Tripadika in Sanskrit, Jarigida in Kannada, Hamsapadi in Hindi ) is a fern in the genus Adiantum.

Bangladeshi passport

The inside back of the passport contains an embossed image of the National Parliament of Bangladesh in Bengali (Bangla) and English, with a quotation of Louis I Kahn, the architect of the complex, written in English.

The inside cover of a machine readable Bangladeshi passport has an embossed image of the National Monument, with the national anthem of Bangladesh written in Bengali (Bangla) and English.

Catherine Masud

Catherine Masud (Bengali:ক্যাথরিন মাসুদ) is an American-born filmmaker, residing in Bangladesh since 1995.

Devdas Chhotray

He is one of the few outsiders whose work has been published in Bengali translation in Sunil Gangopadhyaya edited "Krittibas".

Graves Haughton

Two years later, he was appointed as an assistant professor at the East India College, Haileybury; he held the post of professor of Sanskrit and Bengali from 1819 to 1827, publishing instructional works in Bengali.

Leela Roy Ghosh

Leela Roy Ghosh (Hindi: लीला रॉय घोष Līlā Rŏya Ghōṣa, Bengali: লীলা রায় ঘোষ Līlā Rāẏa Ghōṣa, February 3, 1948 – May 11, 2012) was an Indian actress and voice-dubbing artist who spoke Hindi, Bengali, English, Marathi and Urdu.

Manorama Yearbook

The Manorama Yearbook is a concise encyclopedia of current affairs published annually in Malayalam, English, Hindi, Tamil and Bengali languages by the Malayala Manorama Group in India.

Mosque City of Bagerhat

The Khan Jahan Mausoleum or tomb is located on the northern bank of a water tank (a pond infested with crocodiles) called thakur dighi in Bengali language.

Raisul Islam Asad

Raisul Islam Asad (Bengali: রাইসুল ইসলাম আসাদ); born: Asaduzzaman Mohammad Raisul Islam in July 15, 1952 Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Rajkumar Shitaljit Singh

Some of the books he translated from Bengali to Manipuri are the Gita Govinda and Padavali gi Shayan Shaikhan.

Rod Boleche Hobe

Rod Boleche Hobe (Bengali: রোদ বলেছে হবে) is a solo album released by Shayan Chowdhury Arnob in 2010.

S. M. Cyril

This is often in the children's mother tongues (Bengali or Hindi), but a substantial proportion of the Rainbow students are able to integrate into the English medium Loreto Day School itself.

Sabras Radio

Although the majority of the schedule is presented in Hindi and English - there are speciality shows broadcasting in Bengali, Gujarati and Punjabi.

Sankari Prasad Basu

Sankari Prasad Basu (born 21 October 1928, also credited as Sankariprasad Basu) is an Indian scholar, writer and critic who writes mainly in the Bengali language.

Shahidul Jahir

He was reputed for extraordinary prose style and diciton and considered a genuine founder of post-modern fiction in Bengali.

Soyombo

If the word Svayambhu is pronounced in Bengali, it will be pronounced Shoyombhu; Soyombo sounds much similar to that.


1613 in poetry

Govindadasa (born 1535), Bengali Vaishnava poet known for his body of devotional songs addressed to Krishna

Audrius Beinorius

Later he moved to India where during four years he studied Indology, Buddhology and Indian languages (Sanskrit, Pali, Bengali, Tibetan) at the Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture in Calcutta.

Bangla Desh – A Voice of a New Nation

It was a collection of seventy poems by fifty poets, all translated from Bengali into English by Pritish Nandy.

Bangladesh University of Professionals

Bangladesh University of Professionals (BUP) (Bengali: BUP বাংলাদেশ ইউনিভার্সিটি অব প্রফেশনালস) is the 30th public university of Bangladesh established in Mirpur, Dhaka in 2008, to run all educational institutions of the army, navy and air force and facilitate professional degrees for armed forces personnel and civilians through its affiliated institutions.

Bhabanipur, Rajshahi Division

One is on the auspicious occasion of Maghi Purnima, in the Bengali month of “Magh/Falgun” and another is on the auspicious occasion of Ram Nabomi in the Bengali month of “Chaitra”/”Baishak".

Buddhadev Das Gupta

His famous autobiography Bamaner Chandrasparshavilash (meaning: "The desire of a dwarf to touch the moon"), was periodically published in a Bengali Magazine "Disha" and has been published in the form of book in 2004 (part-I) and in 2010 (part-II).

Butea

Butea monosperma, also known as Flame of the Forest or Bastard Teak in English, Kingshuk or Palash in Bengali or Hindi, Kesudo or Khakhro in Gujarati, is native to India and Southeast Asia, where it is used for timber, resin, fodder, medicine, and dye.

Charyapada

According to Bengali scholar Haraprasad Shastri (1853–1931), Charyapada is also the collection of the oldest verses written in pre-Modern Bengali.

Demographics of the United Arab Emirates

Other languages spoken in the UAE, due to immigration, include Urdu, Hindi, Persian, Pashto, Malayalam, Bengali, Punjabi, Tamil, Balochi, Russian, Somali language, Tagalog, Nepali and Mandarin Chinese.

Dibratrir Kabya

Dibratrir Kabya is a 1973 Bengali black-and-white film starring Madhabi Mukherjee, Anjana Bhowmik and Basant Choudhury in the lead roles.

Dušan Zbavitel

While still just a researcher at the Oriental Institute of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, he taught Bengali at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University (1950–1968).

Gender neutrality in genderless languages

In Maithili, Bengali, Assamese, Oriya and Nepali, there are different nouns for professions, but they are not commonly used, so these languages have become gender-neutral.

History of Rakhine

During that period, its kings minted coins inscribed in Arakanese, Kufic and Bengali.

Iffat Ara

When Ananda Mohan College was upgraded to a university-college, Iffat Ara lost no time to get admitted for her Masters in Bengali Language and Literature.

Indian Institute of Technology Joint Entrance Examination

IIT-JEE is conducted only in English and Hindi, making it harder for students where regional languages, like Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Urdu, Oriya, Bengali, Marathi, Assamese or Gujarati, are more prominent.

Kokborok

Kókborok was relegated to a common people's dialect during the rule of the Borok Kings in the Kingdom of Tipra, in contrast to Bengali language, from the period of the 14th century till the 20th century.

Lal Pahare'r Katha

Lal Pahare'r Katha (a story of the red hills), is a 2007 Bengali-language Indian feature film directed by Remo D'Souza, starring Mithun Chakraborty, Rishi, Shankar Chakravarty, Diya and Piyali.

Mere Apne

It was Gulzar's first directorial venture and was almost a frame by frame remake of the National Award winning Bengali film Apanjan, which was directed by Tapan Sinha.

Neel Akasher Neechey

Neel Akasher Neechey (Bengali: নীল আকাশের নীচে Nil akasher niche, "Under the Blue Sky") is a 1959 Bengali language film directed by Mrinal Sen, starring Kali Bannerjee, Manju Dey, Bikash Roy and others.

Nil Darpan

Nil Durpan (Bengali: নীল দর্পন।, The Mirror of Indigo; translated as Nil Darpan; or, The Indigo Planting Mirror) is a Bengali play written by Dinabandhu Mitra in 1858–1859.

Pother Kanta

It is one of the first forays that Sharadindu took in the realm of creating a mature logical detective moulded in the pattern of Sherlock Holmes in the Bengali language, and one that Bengalis could immediately identify with.

Pratima Barua Pandey

Pratima Barua Pandey (Assamese: প্ৰতিমা বৰুৱা পাণ্ডে) (Bengali: প্ৰতিমা বড়ুয়া পাণ্ডে) (3 October 1935 – 27 December 2002) was a popular folk singer from the royal family of Gauripur in Western Assam's Dhubri district.

Qazi Mahbub Hussain

Later in life he translated and authored some of the first Western Novels in Bengali with Sheba Prokashoni, a publication founded by his older brother Qazi Anwar Hussain.

Sambad Kaumudi

On December 20, 1821, the Calcutta Journal brought out an editorial, commenting on the publication of this "new Bengali newspaper edited by a learned Hindoo".

In the prospectus for the Sambad Kaumudi, published in English and Bengali in November 1821, Ram Mohan appealed to his countrymen to lend him "the support and patronage of all who feel themselves interested in the moral and intellectual improvement of our countrymen".

Shironamhin Shironamhin

Shironamhin Shironamhin (Bengali: শিরোনামহীন শিরোনামহীন; Śirōnāmahīn Śirōnāmahīn English: Untitled as Always) is the fifth album by Bengali psychedelic rock band Shironamhin.

Suprobhat Bangladesh

Suprobhat Bangladesh (Bengali: সুপ্রভাত বাংলাদেশ Suprobhat Bangladesh "Good Morning Bangladesh") is a regional daily newspaper in Bangladesh, published from Chittagong in the Bengali language.

Surajpuri language

Surajpuri (Surjapuri) is one of the eastern Indian languages mainly spoken in Bihar (Kishanganj, Katihar, Purnia, Araria), north Bengal, eastern Nepal and north western Bangladesh.It has significant similarities with both Hindi and Bengali languages.

Tahader Katha

Tahader Katha is a 1992 award winning Bengali-language Indian feature film directed by Budhhadeb Dasgupta, starring Mithun Chakraborty, who won the 1993 National Film Awards for Best Actor for the film, while the film won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Bengali.

Tapen Chatterjee

The song Aaha Ki Aananda Aakshe Batashe filmed on him and Rabi Ghosh still stirs the memory of the Bengali film lovers.

Unish-Kuri

Unish-Kuri, which literally means "nineteen twenty", targeted at teens and young adults, is one of the youngest fortnightly magazines published from ABP Ltd, publishers of Anandabazar Patrika and The Telegraph, of Kolkata, India, that took off as a new division, or wing of Anandamela, the 33-year-old children's magazine published in Bengali.