কানুনগো

Bengali

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian قَانُون گو (qānūn gō).

Pronunciation

  • (Rarh) IPA(key): /kanunɡo/, [ˈkanunɡoˑ]
  • (Dhaka) IPA(key): /kanunɡo/, [ˈkanunɡoˑ]

Noun

কানুনগো • (kanungō)[1]

  1. registrar of a district

Proper noun

কানুনগো • (kanungō)

  1. a surname, Qanungo, from Persian

Derived terms

  • কানুনগোপাড়া (kanungōpaṛa)

References

  1. ^ Chatterji, Suniti Kumar (1926) The Origin and Development of the Bengali Language‎[1], volume 1, Calcutta: Calcutta University Press, page 586

Further reading

  • Atindra Mojumder (1981) “কানুনগো”, in Arabic, Persian and Turkish Words in Bengali Literature, Melbourne: University of Melbourne; republished 15 Shyama Charan Dey Street, Kolkata 700073: Ekush Shatak, 2012, page 118
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