কেয়া

Bengali

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /kea/

Etymology 1

Inherited from Prakrit 𑀓𑁂𑀅𑀬 (keaya), from Sanskrit কেতক (ketaka).[1] Doublet of কেওড়া (keōṛa) and কেতকী (ketoki), a tatsama.

কেয়া (Pandanus odorifer)

Alternative forms
  • কেআ (kea)[2]

Noun

কেয়া • (keẏa)

  1. screw pine (Pandanus odorifer, syn. P. odoratissimus[1])
    Synonyms: কেতকী (ketôkī), কেতক (ketok), কেওড়া (keōṛa)
    Meronyms: (leaf) কেয়াপাতা (keẏapata), (flower) কেউ (keu), (flower) কেয়াফুল (keẏaphul), (cluster of flowers) কেয়াকাঁদি (keẏakãdi)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Hindustani کیا‎ / क्या (kyā).

Alternative forms

Adverb

কেয়া • (keẏa)

  1. (rhetorical) such, what, how
    কেয়া মজা! ― keẏa moja! ― Such fun!
    Synonym: কি (ki)
Derived terms
  • কেয়া বাত (keẏa bat)

Etymology 3

From Sanskrit किम् (kim, “what”). Cognate with Assamese কিয় (kio) and কিয়া (kia). Compare Hindustani کیوں‎ / क्यों (kyõ).

Alternative forms

Adverb

কেয়া • (keẏa) (Vanga, Varendra)

  1. why
    Synonym: কেন (ken)

References
  1. দাস, জ্ঞানেন্দ্রমোহন (1937), “কেয়া”, in Dictionary of the Bengali Language (Self-pronouncing, Etymological & Explanatory) with Appendices (in Bengali), 2nd edition, কলিকাতা: দি ইণ্ডিয়ান্ পাব্‌লিশিং হাউস, page 566, 570
  2. Graves Haughton (1833), “কেআ”, in A Dictionary, Bengálí and Sanskrit, Explained in English, and Adapted for Students of Either Language‎, London: J. L. Cox & Son, page 787
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