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Bengali-English Thesaurus
বাংলা-ইংরেজি সমার্থক শব্দকোষ (থিসরাস)
WORD SEARCH
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please use the above search box and
type the Bengali word using
Roman/English alphabets to find the word you intend to look up in the
drop-down list. Select the Bengali word from the
drop-down menu and press SEARCH. Write in
English, Find in Bengali!
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you'll find it at the bottom of the drop-down list. Click on the
word to select it and hit SEARCH.
If you want to look up a
phrase, type each word, select it from the drop-down list and then
type the next word.
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page, please click on the Page Title
(underlined and in blue) to visit the page with the relevant
entries..
If you do not find the word or phrase using the above search box,
you can try your search here:
WORD SEARCH
Happy searching!
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«Tous les grands écrivains sont de grands lecteurs de dictionnaires:
ils nagent à travers les mots. » -- Umberto Eco
Although this
glossary is primarily planned as a bilingual
thesaurus, it may also be used as a Bengali
or an
English lexicon of synonyms. I hope this
Bengali and English dictionary of synonyms (words having similar
meanings) will
be of help to
writers and translators who deal simultaneously with the Bengali
and/or the English languages. It will also come to the aid of anyone
in need of looking up a synonym of a Bengali or an English word. On
the same page and for each entry you will have synonymous Bengali
words and their corresponding English synonyms presented
side-by-side.
As a
translator I come across words, thousands of them, every day. Ever
so often I have to dig my way through them, searching and probing.
That is how this list has started. Let me call it: My Experiment
with Words.
This is
neither a dictionary nor a thesaurus in the conventional sense.
Rather, it is a bilingual 'word book'. The list of synonyms
provided here will cover the whole range of usage and style, from
slang and informal to the modern and archaic and I shall try to
provide with as generous a list of words as possible. However, it
should be borne in mind that true synonyms -- those that can
substitute the headword in all contexts -- are rare. So I consider
it wise to warn the readers that the alternatives provided here may
not be genuinely interchangeable in all contexts. For the precise
shade of meaning of any word and its usage, readers should refer to
a good dictionary.
In building this 'word
book' I am indebted to all the published dictionaries and thesauri,
in Bengali as well as in English. At the same time it will be my
endeavour to make it a unique and useful storehouse of words
especially for those who deal with the written language in any form
or manner.
This is just the beginning
and unfortunately, for many years now, it will be an incomplete word
book. I invite the readers to help me with their suggestions by
sending to me an
e-mail.
"All the synonyma's of sadnesse were little
enough to expresse this great weeping." [Great Exemplar
Sect vi.98; JEREMY TAYLOR (1613-1667)]
Copyright © 2006-2016 by
Subhamay Ray. All rights reserved.
Dedicated to the loving memory of my younger brother
Sarbajit Ray
who left us aged only 34
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