আহলে জবান

Bengali

Alternative forms
  • আহেলে জবান (ahele zôban)

Etymology

From আহেল (ahel, “people”) + জবান (zôban, “language”), each from Classical Persian اهل‎ and Classical Persian زبان‎ (zabān) respectively, with the former ultimately being derived from Arabic أَهْل‎ (ʔahl).

Noun

আহলে জবান • (ahle zôban)

  1. (linguistics) speaker of the person's mother tongue
  2. native speaker
    উনি আহলে জবানের মতো বাংলা বলেন।
    uni ahle zôbaner môto baṅgla bôlen.
    He speaks Bengali like a native speaker.

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