দেওয়ানা

Bengali

Alternative forms
  • দাওনা (daōna) – uncommon
  • দীউয়ানা (diuẏana) – uncommon

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian دیوانه‎, derived from Middle Persian [script needed] (dyw'nk' /dēwānag/, “demonic; crazy, insane”) which is ultimately from Proto-Iranian *daywánah (“demon possessed; insane, crazy”).[1]

Adjective

দেওয়ানা • (deōẇana) (comparative আরও দেওয়ানা, superlative সবচেয়ে দেওয়ানা)

  1. crazy
  2. mad; frenzied; inspired; obsessed.
    শুনিয়া আশক ছিনু দেখিয়া দেওয়ানা হইনু জীউ মেরা হৈল বেকারার
    śuniẏa aśôk chinu dekhiẏa deẇana hôinu jiu mera hoilô bekarar
    (please add an English translation of this usage example)
    - Syed Hamza

References
  1. Rastorgujeva, V. S.; Edelʹman, D. I. (2000–), “*daiu̯a-”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura
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