বোতাম

Bengali

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese botão, from Old French bouton (“button, bud”), from Vulgar Latin *bautōnem, accusative of bautō, from Proto-West Germanic *bautō (“bump, knob”), from *bautan (“to beat, push”).

Pronunciation
  • (Rarh) IPA(key): /bot̪am/, [ˈbot̪am]
  • (Dhaka) IPA(key): /bot̪am/, [ˈbot̪am]

Noun

বোতাম • (bōtam)

  1. button
    শার্টের বোতাম লাগাও।
    śarṭer bōtam lagaō.
    Button up your shirt.
    (literally, “Attach the button to your shirt.”)

Derived terms
  • বোতাম লাগানো (bōtam laganō, “to button up”)

Descendants
  • → Assamese: বুটাম (butam), গুদাম (gudam)
  • → Sylheti: ꠉꠥꠔꠣꠝ (gutam)

Further reading
  • Sen, Sukumar (1971) An Etymological Dictionary of Bengali: c. 1000-1800 A.D.‎, Calcutta: Eastern Publishers, page 693.
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