চৌধুরি

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Bengali

Alternative forms

Etymology

A variant of the rarer form চৌধরি (cōudhori), from Sanskrit चतुर्धरी (caturdharī, holder of four), a compound of चतुर् (catur, four) +‎ धर (dhara, holding, from धृ (dhṛ, to hold)) +‎ -ई (, doer), with "four" here representing the total of something (compare চারদিক (cardik, literally "four directions", but used to mean "every direction")).

Pronunciation

  • (standard) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃou̯.d̪ʱu.ɾi/,
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  • (Vanga) IPA(key): /ˈt͡sou̯.d̪ʱu.ɾi/,

Noun

চৌধুরি (cōudhuri)

  1. (history) a revenue collector during Muslim rule
  2. a headman

Proper noun

চৌধুরি (cōudhuri)

  1. a title
  2. a surname

Further reading

  • Chatterji, Suniti Kumar (1926) The Origin and Development of the Bengali Language, volume 2, Calcutta: Calcutta University Press, page 788
  • Sen, Sukumar (1971) An Etymological Dictionary of Bengali: c. 1000-1800 A.D., volume 290, Calcutta: Eastern Publishers.