হরিকেল

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Old Bengali[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

Possibly a compound of হরি (hari, yellow) +‎ কেল (kela, banana), literally (land of) yellow bananas, from Sanskrit हरि (hari) and कदल (kadala) respectively.

Pronunciation[edit]

Proper noun[edit]

হরিকেল (harikela)

  1. Harikela, a janapada of eastern Bengal in the early medieval period

References[edit]

  • Sen, Sukumar (1981) বাংলা স্থাননাম [Bengali toponyms]‎[1] (in Bengali), Calcutta: Pustak Bipani, page 115