পিক

Assamese

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Indo-Aryan. Compare Sylheti ꠙꠤꠇ (fik), Bengali পিক (pik, spit), Hindi पीक (pīk, juice of betel), Gujarati પિક (pik, saliva).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pik/

Noun

পিক • (pik)

  1. juice from paan (a snack made from betel leaf) that is often spat out

Declension

Derived terms

References

  • Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “pikkā”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press