চৌধুরি

Bengali

Alternative forms

Etymology

A variant of the rarer form চৌধরি (cōudhori), from Sanskrit चतुर्धरी (caturdharī, “holder of four”), a compound of चतुर् (catur, “four”) +‎ धर (dhara, “holding”, from धृ (dhṛ, “to hold”)) +‎ -ई (-ī, “doer”), with "four" here representing the total of something (compare চারদিক (cardik, literally "four directions", but used to mean "every direction")).

Pronunciation

  • (Rarh) IPA(key): /t͡ʃou̯d̪ʱuɾi/, [ˈt͡ʃou̯d̪ʱuɾiˑ]
  • (Dhaka) IPA(key): /tɕou̯d̪ʱuɹi/, [ˈtɕou̯d̪ʱuɹiˑ]
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Noun

চৌধুরি • (cōudhuri)

  1. (history) a revenue collector during Muslim rule
  2. a headman

Proper noun

চৌধুরি • (cōudhuri)

  1. a title
  2. a surname

Further reading

  • Chatterji, Suniti Kumar (1926) The Origin and Development of the Bengali Language‎[1], volume 2, Calcutta: Calcutta University Press, page 788
  • Sen, Sukumar (1971) An Etymological Dictionary of Bengali: c. 1000-1800 A.D.‎[2], volume 290, Calcutta: Eastern Publishers.
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