Pillows etc. in Hindi & Bengali

Date: November 15, 2017Author: Abhishek Avtans 0 Comments

Pillow in Hindi is Takiyaa तकिया, and Baalish বালিশ in Bengali. My favorite pillows since childhood is a hug-pillow (bolster) called Masnad मसनद in Hindi and kol-baalish কল বালিশ in Bengali. Surprisingly all these words are Perso-Arabic borrowings in Hindi and Bengali.

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