পাঙ্গাশ

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Bengali

Alternative forms

Etymology

A variant of পিঙ্গাশ (piṅgaś), which is ultimately from Sanskrit पिङ्ग (piṅga, “yellow, brown, tawny”), named such due to the yellow-colored tail of the fish.[1][2]

Pronunciation

Noun

পাঙ্গাশ • (paṅgaś)

  1. A yellowtail catfish (Pangasius pangasius)
  2. (broadly) the genus Pangasius

Descendants

  • → Translingual: Pangasius

References

  1. ^ Haughton, Graves C. (1833) A Dictionary, Bengálí and Sanskrit, Explained in English, and Adapted for Students of Either Language‎, London: J. L. Cox & Son, page 1700
  2. ^ দাস, জ্ঞানেন্দ্রমোহন (1916) বাঙ্গলা ভাষার অভিধান (in Bengali), ইণ্ডিয়ান প্রেস & ইণ্ডিয়ান্ পাব্‌লিশিং হাউস্, pages 962, 980
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