বিয়ান

Bengali

Alternative forms

  • বেয়ান (beẏan)

Pronunciation

  • (Rarh) IPA(key): /bi̯an/, [ˈbi̯an]

Etymology 1

Inherited from Middle Bengali বিহান (bihan), from an earlier বিহানী (bihani), from Prakrit *𑀯𑀺𑀆𑀳𑀺𑀦𑀻 (*viāhinī), from Sanskrit *विवाहिनी (*vivāhinī, “(one) aligned by marriage”), from विवाह (vivāha, “marriage”) +‎ -इनी (-inī). Cognate with Assamese বিয়নী (bini), Gujarati વહેવણ (vahevaṇ), વેહ્વણ (vehvaṇ), Marathi विहीण (vihīṇ). Doublet of বিয়াই (biẏai), বিয়ে (biẏe), and বিবাহ (bibaho).

Noun

বিয়ান • (biẏan)

  1. son's or daughter's mother-in-law

Etymology 2

Inherited from Sanskrit विभानुः (vibhānuḥ)[1].

Alternative forms

  • বিহান (bihan), বেহান (behan), বেয়ান (beẏan)

Noun

বিয়ান • (biẏan)

  1. morning; dawn; daybreak
Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1931), “बियान”, in A comparative and etymological dictionary of the Nepali language, London: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner
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