বোতাম
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Bengali[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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[edit]
Noun[edit]
বোতাম • (bōtam)
Derived terms[edit]
- বোতাম লাগানো (bōtam laganō, “to button up”)
Descendants[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- Sen, Sukumar (1971) An Etymological Dictionary of Bengali: c. 1000-1800 A.D.[1], Calcutta: Eastern Publishers, page 693.