কওম

Bengali

Alternative forms

  • কউম, কৌম (kōum)

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian قَوْم (qawm), from Arabic قَوْم (qawm).

Pronunciation

  • (Rarh) IPA(key): /kɔo̯m/, [ˈkɔo̯m]
  • (Dhaka) IPA(key): /kɔo̯m/, [ˈkɔo̯m]
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Noun

কওম • (koōm)

  1. community, nation, people
    গাইত কবিতা দিয়া কওমের গান
    gait kobita diẏa koōmer gan
    would sing with a poem, the song of the nation
    - Raushan Yazdani

Derived terms

  • কওমি (koōmi)
Bengali terms derived from the Arabic root ق و م (0 c, 5 e)

References

  • “কওম”, in Accessible Dictionary [Bengali-English], Bangladesh: Young Power in Social Action (YPSA), 2018.
  • “কওম”, in Accessible Dictionary [Bengali-Bengali], Bangladesh: Young Power in Social Action (YPSA), 2018.
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