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Bengali
Etymology 1
Inherited from Sanskrit মধ্য (madhya), from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“between, in the middle, middle”). Cognate with Latin medius (“middle, medium”), English mid, middle.
Pronunciation
Adjective
মেজ • (mejo) (comparative আরও মেজ, superlative সবচেয়ে মেজ)
- secondborn, second in age
- middle, medium
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Classical Persian میز (mēz), from Middle Persian (myʾzd /mēzd/, “sacrifice, offering meal; table[1]”), (mēzag, “small table[2]”).[3][4][5] Cognate with Avestan 𐬨𐬫𐬀𐬰𐬛𐬀 (myazda, “sacrifice”), Khotanese (mastāña, “fodder”) and Sanskrit मियेध (miyédha, “sacrificial oblation, offering of food”).
Pronunciation
Noun
মেজ • (mej) (objective মেজ (mej) or মেজকে (mejoke), genitive মেজের (mejer), locative মেজে (meje))
- desk, table
- Synonyms: টেবিল (ṭebil), ডেস্ক (ḍesk)
আমরা যদিও পাতিয়াছি মেজে- amra jodiō patiẏachi meje
- Even if we have laid it out in the table.
Rabindranath Tagore
References
- ^ Bailey, H. W. (1979) “phaysdve”, in Dictionary of Khotan Saka, Cambridge, London, New York, Melbourne: Cambridge University press, page 259
- ^ Grammatik des Westmitteliranischen (Parthisch und Mittelpersisch) (Durkin-Meisteremst, Desmond) (Please provide the book title or journal name) (in German), Viena: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, pages 159, 157
- ^ MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “mēzd”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 56
- ^ Asatrian, Garnik (2011) “mīz”, in A Comparative Vocabulary of Central Iranian Dialects (in Persian), Tehran: Safir Ardehal Publications, page 281
- ^ Bailey, H. W. (1979) “mastān̄a”, in Dictionary of Khotan Saka, Cambridge, London, New York, Melbourne: Cambridge University press, page 326