চৌধুরি

Bengali

Alternative forms

• চৌধুরী (cōudhuri)

Etymology

A variant of the rarer form চৌধরি (cōudhori), from Sanskrit चतुर्धरी (caturdharī, “holder of four”), a compound of चतुर् (catur, “four”) +‎ धर (dhara, “holding”, from धृ (dhṛ, “to hold”)) +‎ -ई (-ī, “doer”), with "four" here representing the total of something (compare চারদিক (cardik, literally "four directions", but used to mean "every direction")).

Pronunciation

• (standard) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃou̯.d̪ʱu.ɾi/, [ˈt͡ʃou̯.d̪ʱu.ɾiˑ]

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• (Vanga) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡sou̯.d̪ʱu.ɾi/, [ˈt͡sou̯.d̪ʱu.ɾiˑ]

Noun

চৌধুরি • (cōudhuri)

1. (history) a revenue collector during Muslim rule
2. a headman

Proper noun

চৌধুরি • (cōudhuri)

1. a title
2. a surname

Further reading

• Chatterji, Suniti Kumar (1926) The Origin and Development of the Bengali Language‎^[1], volume 2, Calcutta: Calcutta University Press, page 788
• Sen, Sukumar (1971) An Etymological Dictionary of Bengali: c. 1000-1800 A.D.‎^[2], volume 290, Calcutta: Eastern Publishers.