আহলে জবান
Bengali
Alternative spellings
- আহেলে জবান (ahele zôban)
Etymology
From আহেল (ahel, “people”) + জবান (zôban, “language”), each from Classical Persian اهل and Classical Persian زبان (zabān) respectively, with the former ultimately being derived from Arabic أَهْل (ʾahl).
Noun
আহলে জবান • (ahle zôban)
- (linguistics) speaker of the person's mother tongue
- native speaker
- উনি আহলে জবানের মতো বাংলা বলেন।
- uni ahle zôbaner môto baṅgla bôlen.
- He speaks Bengali like a native speaker.
References
- Accessible Dictionary, “আহেলে জবান” Bengali-Bengali, Government of Bangladesh