মোতি

Bengali

Alternative forms

Etymology

Partly inherited from Middle Bengali মুতি (muti) and partly borrowed from Hindustani मोती / موتی (motī), both from Sanskrit मौक्तिक (mauktika).[1]

Pronunciation
  • (Rarh) IPA(key): /mot̪i/, [ˈmot̪iˑ]

Noun

মোতি • (mōti)

  1. pearl
    Synonym: মুক্তা (mukta)

References
  1. Chatterji, Suniti Kumar (1926) The Origin and Development of the Bengali Language‎, volume 1, Calcutta: Calcutta University Press, page 303
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