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Middle Bengali
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian صَحِیح (sahīh), with a semantic narrowing in Indian Persian,[1] from Arabic صَحِيح (ṣaḥīḥ, “correct, valid”). First attested in the 18th century[1].
Noun
সহি (śohi)[1]
- signature (formal approval)
Descendants
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Sen, Sukumar (1971) An Etymological Dictionary of Bengali: c. 1000-1800 A.D., volume 2, Calcutta: Eastern Publishers, page 864.
Further reading
- Atindra Mojumder (1981) “সই/সহি”, in Arabic, Persian and Turkish Words in Bengali Literature, Melbourne: University of Melbourne; republished 15 Shyama Charan Dey Street, Kolkata 700073: Ekush Shatak, 2012, page 465