the word i love from benglas not actually english but urdu in origin..' mosli shawal'..
What was her name?Zulekha
Zulekha was our bengali maid and a wonderful woman.The quality i like most was she never speak lie.Once she was telling us about a bengali sweet and she kept on repeating "Khazoor ka ghoor" and i was unable to understand what was that.When she gone,i asked my mother and she told me that it was "Khajoor ka gurr"
And the way she called every good smell as "Acha badboo" made me ROFL
Re: The English words that Bengali people made Bangla..
format_quote Originally Posted by Endymion
What was her name?Zulekha
Zulekha was our bengali maid and a wonderful woman.The quality i like most was she never speak lie.Once she was telling us about a bengali sweet and she kept on repeating "Khazoor ka ghoor" and i was unable to understand what was that.When she gone,i asked my mother and she told me that it was "Khajoor ka gurr"
And the way she called every good smell as "Acha badboo" made me ROFL
lol.. we also had a bangla maid "zulaikha aunty"..
Re: The English words that Bengali people made Bangla..
format_quote Originally Posted by Muezzin
Things like this go both ways. Doesn't the English word 'bungalow' derive from a Bengali word?
Yup, from 'Bangla' gor (house)- usually the one floor smaller houses are referred to as such.
Where on earth has this thread been hiding?
I had relative who kept going on about 'Central bourne' to find they meant 'St. Albans'....
Re: The English words that Bengali people made Bangla..
format_quote Originally Posted by Orn
I got this funny email in my inbox today(well...yesterday night) forwarded to me by Laila(Thanx sis)
>>>Ai-FOL = APPLE
>>>ANDARFENT = UNDERPANTS
>>>BEG = BAG
>>>BENK = BANK
>>>BERET = BREAD
>>>BEH-SE-LIN / BASALEEN = VASELINE
>>>BICKS = VICKS
>>>BIDEE-O = VIDEO
>>>BOLBO = VOLVO
>>>BOO-TOL = BOTTLE
>>>CARFIT = CARPET
>>>COMFOOTAR = COMPUTER
>>>CUF = CUP
>>>DACKTOR = DOCTOR
>>>DBD = DVD
>>>DOYAR = DRAWER
>>>FEE-REE-ZAR = FREEZER
>>>FEFAR = PAPER
>>>FEH-RENT = FRIEND
>>>FEN = FAN
>>>FENT = PANTS
>>>FERASITAMOL = PARACETAMOL
>>>FICKLE = PICKLE
>>>FLAYSTETION = PLAYSTATION
>>>FOOLEESH = POLICE
>>>FOOSH-TOFISH / FOOSHTA-FISH = POST OFFICE
>>>FOTU = PHOTO
>>>GESH = GAS
>>>GELASH = GLASS
>>>HENGAR = HANGER
>>>HOOBAR = HOOVER
>>>ISHKOOL = SCHOOL
>>>ISHTESHON = STATION
>>>JOOSH = JUICE
>>>KISIN = KITCHEN
>>>LEE-BISH-TICK = LIPSTICK
>>>MOG = MUG
>>>OXUL ISH-TIT = OXFORD STREET
>>>REDIO = RADIO
>>>ROOST = ROAST
>>>SAATIN = SARDINE
>>>SALLAT = SALAD
>>>SEE-YAR = CHAIR
>>>STADFOD = STRAFORD
>>>TAWAL = TOWEL
>>>TB = TV
>>>TEBEL / TEBIL = TABLE
>>>TELI-BEE-SHON = TELEVISION
>>>UNIBAR-CITY = UNIVERSITY
>>>WIDERAW - WARDROBE
>>>ZOG - JUG
ootni market - watney market
folom - plum
This is wrong , not all of these words are bangla
for example I pick out some of your faults, some of these words are not Bengali, perhaps you think it is since that you were raised in an English home but there are actual Bengali words for some of these
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Ok I listened halfway and couldn't listen to it anymore lol
“The believers in their mutual kindness, compassion and sympathy are just like one body. When one of the limbs is afflicted, the whole body responds to it with sleeplessness and fever”.
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I understood it was really funny but thing is I am not sylheti so I am still trying but gets difficult I understand it better now though just I was laughing
“The believers in their mutual kindness, compassion and sympathy are just like one body. When one of the limbs is afflicted, the whole body responds to it with sleeplessness and fever”.
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