পাঙ্গাশ

Bengali

Alternative forms
  • পাঙ্গাস (paṅgas)
  • পাঙ্গুস (paṅgus)
  • পাঙ্গুয়াস (paṅguẏas)

Etymology

A variant of পিঙ্গাশ (piṅgaś), which is ultimately from Sanskrit पिङ्ग (piṅga, “yellow, brown, tawny”), named such due to the yellow-colored tail of the fish.[1][2]

Pronunciation
  • (Rarh) IPA(key): /paŋɡaʃ/, [paŋɡaʃ]
  • (Dhaka) IPA(key): /paŋɡaʃ/, [paŋɡaʃ]
  • (Rarh) IPA(key): /paŋaʃ/, [paŋaʃ]

Noun

পাঙ্গাশ • (paṅgaś)

  1. Pangasius pangasius, the yellow-tailed shark catfish
  2. (broadly) the genus Pangasius

Borrowings
  • → Translingual: Pangasius

References
  1. Haughton, Graves C. (1833) A Dictionary, Bengálí and Sanskrit, Explained in English, and Adapted for Students of Either Language‎, London: J. L. Cox & Son, page 1700
  2. দাস, জ্ঞানেন্দ্রমোহন (1916) বাঙ্গলা ভাষার অভিধান (in Bengali), ইণ্ডিয়ান প্রেস & ইণ্ডিয়ান্ পাব্‌লিশিং হাউস্, page 962, 980
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