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  2. Ghosts in Bengali culture - Wikipedia

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    The word Gechho comes from the word Gaachh, which means tree in Bengali. Aleya / Atoshi Bhoot: Atoshi (or marsh ghost-light) is the name given to a strange phenomenon of light that happens near the marshes ( similar to the Will-o'-the-wisp), especially reported by the fishermen of West Bengal and Bangladesh. These so-called marsh lights often ...

  3. Language - Wikipedia

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    Word classes can be "open" if new words can continuously be added to the class, or relatively "closed" if there is a fixed number of words in a class. In English, the class of pronouns is closed, whereas the class of adjectives is open, since an infinite number of adjectives can be constructed from verbs (e.g. "saddened") or nouns (e.g. with ...

  4. Khandana Bhava–Bandhana - Wikipedia

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    Khandana Bhava–Bandhana, [a] Sri Ramakrishna Aratrikam, [1] or Sri Ramakrishna Arati [2] ("Breaker of this world’s chain"), [3] is a Bengali song composed by Hindu monk Swami Vivekananda. [4] [5] The song, dedicated to the 19th-century saint Ramakrishna, [6] was composed in 1898. [7] [8] Khandana Bhava-Bandhana is a prayer song based on ...

  5. Bengali vocabulary - Wikipedia

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    Bengali (বাংলা Bangla) is one of the Eastern Indo-Aryan languages, which evolved from Magadhi Prakrit, native to the eastern Indian subcontinent. [1] The core of Bengali vocabulary is thus etymologically of Magadhi Prakrit origin, with significant ancient borrowings from the older substrate language (s) of the region.

  6. Culture of Bengal - Wikipedia

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    Contents. Culture of Bengal. The culture of Bengal defines the cultural heritage of the Bengali people native to eastern regions of the Indian subcontinent, mainly what is today Bangladesh and the Indian states of West Bengal and Tripura, where they form the dominant ethnolinguistic group and the Bengali language is the official and primary ...

  7. Bengali language - Wikipedia

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    Bengali words are virtually all trochaic; the primary stress falls on the initial syllable of the word, while secondary stress often falls on all odd-numbered syllables thereafter, giving strings such as in সহযোগিতা shô-hô-jo-gi-ta "cooperation", where the boldface represents primary and secondary stress. Consonant clusters

  8. Diaspora - Wikipedia

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    A diaspora ( / daɪˈæspərə / dy-ASP-ər-ə) is a population that is scattered across regions which are separate from its geographic place of origin. [3] [4] The word is used in reference to people who identify with a specific geographic location, but currently reside elsewhere. [5] [6] [7]

  9. Baul - Wikipedia

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    The Bauls are an ancient group of wandering minstrels from Bengal, who believe in simplicity in life and love. They are similar to the Buddhists in their belief in a fulfillment which is reached by love's emancipating us from the dominance of self. The below quotations are from Tagore's book " Creative Unity ".