স্নেহ

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Bengali

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Sanskrit स्नेह (sneha, oil, viscid substance; attachment), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *snáyźʰas, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *snáyǰʰas, from Proto-Indo-European *snóygʷʰos (snow), from whence also came English snow. There was a semantic shift from "snow" to "viscid substance (e.g. oil, fat, body fluid)" to "attachment" to "affection", as snow was possibly compared to whitish, sticky body fluids, e.g. semen, snot, spit. Doublet of সিনেহ (sineho) and নেহ (neho).

Pronunciation

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  • (Rarh) IPA(key): /sneɦo/, [ˈsneɦoˑ]
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  • (Dhaka) IPA(key): /sneɦo/, [ˈsneɦoˑ]
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Noun

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স্নেহ (sneho)

  1. affection, fondness, love
  2. oil, grease, fat

Derived terms

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Pali

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Alternative forms

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Noun

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স্নেহ m

  1. Bengali script form of sneha (affection; oil)

Declension

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