কিপটা

Bengali

Alternative forms

• কিপটে (kipoṭe) — Rarh

Etymology

Semi-learned borrowing from Sanskrit कृपण (kṛpaṇa, “miserable”), with semantic shift comparable to that of English miser, as misers were thought to be miserable in life.

Pronunciation

• (Rarh) IPA^(key): /kipʈa/, [ˈkipʈaˑ]

• (Dhaka) IPA^(key): /kipta/, [ˈkiptaˑ]

Adjective

কিপটা • (kipṭa) (comparative আরও কিপটা, superlative সবচেয়ে কিপটা)

1. miserly, stingy
2. (nominalized) miser, scrooge

Derived terms

• কিপটুস (kipoṭus)

References

• Chatterji, Suniti Kumar (1926) The Origin and Development of the Bengali Language‎^[1], volume 1, Calcutta: Calcutta University Press, page 527