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A corruption of the French word for Jewish, juif. Originating from the French argot Verlan. Heeb, Hebe United States: Jews Derived from the word Hebrew. Hymie United States: Jews Derived from the Hebrew Chaim ('life'). Also used in the term Hymietown, a nickname for Brooklyn, New York, and as a first name. Ikey, Ike United States
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 Raga Mishra Kalyani, Tala Ferta (Choutal, Tintal ...
The International Kolkata Book Fair (formerly Calcutta Book Fair) is a winter fair in Kolkata. It is a unique book fair in the sense of not being a trade fair —the book fair is primarily for the general public rather than whole-sale distributors. It is the world's largest non-trade book fair, Asia 's largest book fair and the most attended book fair. [1] It is the world's third-largest ...
Unmad, the Sanskrit word for mad or insane, has been used as the name of a monthly satire magazine in Bangladesh. [1] The magazine was founded by Ishtiaq Hossain and Kazi Khaleed Ashraf in 1978 [2] and tries to ape MAD Magazine.
Malaun ( Bengali: মালাউন) is a pejorative term for Bengali Hindus and Hindus in general, most commonly used in Bangladesh by Bengali Muslims. [1] [2] [3] [4] The word is derived from the Arabic "ملعون", meaning "accursed" or "deprived of God's Mercy", and in modern times, it is used as an ethnic slur by the Muslims in Bengal ...
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. However, in medieval times, more borrowings have occurred, from ...
The magazine was known for its art and illustrations. It was the first ever periodical in Bengali to feature a reproduction of a photograph on its cover purely for the sake of illustration.
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 language. Bengal has a recorded history of 1,400 years. [1] After the partition ...