মাথা

• মাথ (math)
• মেথা (metha) — Eastern

• IPA^(key): /ma.tʰa/

মাথা • (matha)

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   গোটেইখিনি মোৰ মাথাৰ ওপৰেদি গ’ল।

   güteikhini mür mathar üpredi göl.

   I didn't understand anything. (Literally: Everything went above me head.)

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Inherited from Prakrit 𑀫𑀢𑁆𑀣𑀅 (matthaa), from Sanskrit मस्तक (mastaka).

• (Rarh) IPA^(key): /mat̪ʰa/, [ˈmat̪ʰaˑ]

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• (Dhaka) IPA^(key): /mat̪ʰa/, [ˈmat̪ʰaˑ]

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মাথা • (matha) (objective মাথা (matha) or মাথাকে (mathake), genitive মাথার (mathar), locative মাথায় (mathaẏ) or মাথাতে (mathate))

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   • 1905, Rabindranath Tagore, Amar Sonar Bangla:

     দে গো তোর পায়ের ধুলা, সে যে আমার মাথার মানিক হবে

     de gō tōr paẏer dhula, śe je amar matharo manik hobe

     [O Mother,] give me thy feet's dust, that shall bejewel my head

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• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985), “masta”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 571
• Biswas, Sailendra (2000), “মাথা”, in Samsad Bengali-English dictionary, 3^rd edition, Calcutta: Sahitya Samsad, →OCLC, page 857.