মেহেরবানি

Bengali

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian مهربانی (mihrbānī). Analysable as মেহেরবান (meherban) +‎ -ই (-i). Cognate with Hindi मेहरबानी (meharbānī), Gujarati મહેરબાની (maherbānī), Punjabi ਮਿਹਰਬਾਨੀ (mihrabānī), Marathi मेहेरबानी (meherbānī).

Pronunciation

  • (Rarh) IPA(key): /meheɾbani/, [ˈmeheɾbaniˑ]
  • (Dhaka) IPA(key): /meheɹbani/, [ˈmeheɹbaniˑ]

Noun

মেহেরবানি • (meherbani)

  1. kindness