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Old Bengali
Etymology
Possibly a compound of হরি (hari, “yellow”) + কেল (kela, “banana”), literally “(land of) yellow bananas”, from Sanskrit हरि (hari) and कदल (kadala) respectively.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
হরিকেল (harikela)
- Harikela, a janapada of eastern Bengal in the early medieval period
References
- Sen, Sukumar (1981) বাংলা স্থাননাম [Bengali toponyms] (in Bengali), Calcutta: Pustak Bipani, page 115