ছুঁচা

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Bengali

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Etymology

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Inherited from Middle Bengali ছুছা (chucha) with artificial nasalization and final stop deaspiration, from Magadhi Prakrit 𑀙𑀼𑀘𑁆𑀙 (chuccha) + Middle Indo-Aryan -𑀓- (-ka-), assimilated from 𑀢𑀼𑀘𑁆𑀙 (tuccha), from Sanskrit तुच्छ्य (tucchya, empty, vain), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *tuśćyás, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *tušćyás, from Proto-Indo-European *tus-sḱ-yós (empty). Cognate with Odia ଛୁଛା (chuchā), Bhojpuri छूँछ (chū̃ch), Hindi छूछा (chūchā), Nepali छुचो (chuco), Punjabi ਛੂਛਾ (chūchā), Sinhalese සිස් (sis), හි​ස් (hi​s), Phalura tuúš, Persian تهی (tohi) and, more distantly, with Russian тощий (toščij), Polish czczy, Serbo-Croatian та̏шт (tȁšt), Lithuanian tùščias, Latvian tukšs, Estonian tühi, Finnish tyhjä, and Proto-Samic *tuššē. Most New Indo-Aryan languages, including Bengali, went through the following semantic shift: "empty, vain" > "useless" > "base, contemptible (person)".

Pronunciation

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  • (Rarh) IPA(key): /t͡ʃʰũt͡ʃa/, [ˈt͡ʃʰũt͡ʃaˑ]
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  • (Dhaka) IPA(key): /tɕʰutɕa/, [ˈtɕʰutɕaˑ]

Noun

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ছুঁচা (chũca)

  1. mean, base, vile, rogue, contemptible or despicable person