বদলে

বদলে

Bengali

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic بدل‎ (“exchange; substitute”), from the root ب د ل‎ (b-d-l).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɔdole/

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Postposition

বদলে • (bôdole) (with genitive case)

1. instead[1]

   গেঞ্জিরবদলে সার্ট পড়েছে

   genjir bôdole sarţ poṛeche

   (He/She/It/They, neutral, informal) wore a shirt instead of a vest.

References

1. Hanne-Ruth Thompson (2012), chapter 5, in Theodora Bynon,David C. Bennet,Masayoshi Shibatani, editors, Bengali, volume 18, John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 105