Category:Bengali terms by usage

Bengali terms categorized by the manner and context in which they are used by speakers.

• Category:Bengali archaic terms: Bengali terms that are no longer in general use but still encountered in older literature and still sometimes used for special effect.
• Category:Bengali childish terms: Bengali terms that are typically only used by, or to, children.
• Category:Bengali colloquialisms: Bengali terms that are likely to be used primarily in casual conversation rather than in more formal written works, speeches, and discourse.
• Category:Bengali dated terms: Bengali terms that are no longer fashionable, thus are anachronistic.
• Category:Bengali derogatory terms: Bengali terms that are intended to disparage, demean, insult or offend.
• Category:Bengali dialectal terms: Bengali terms that are not used in standard language but only in dialects.
• Category:Bengali endearing terms: Bengali terms that are used to show affection or endearment to another person.
• Category:Bengali familiar terms: Bengali terms whose use is typically to contexts of friendly intimacy.
• Category:Bengali formal terms: Bengali terms whose use is typically restricted to polite, ceremonious, non-casual contexts.
• Category:Bengali higher register terms: Bengali terms belonging to a higher linguistic register, such as literary terms; such terms are somewhat less common or known.
• Category:Bengali honorific terms: Bengali honorific terms, which are used to show deference and respect.
• Category:Bengali humorous terms: Bengali terms that are humorous, amusing or joking.
• Category:Bengali informal terms: Bengali terms whose use is typically restricted to casual, non‐ceremonious conversations.
• Category:Bengali nonstandard terms: Bengali terms that are considered improper, incorrect or commonly misused.
• Category:Bengali offensive terms: Bengali terms that are typically considered to offend people.
• Category:Bengali poetic terms: Bengali terms whose usage is typically restricted to works of poetry.
• Category:Bengali polite terms: Bengali polite terms, which are used to show deference and respect.
• Category:Bengali proscribed terms: Bengali terms whose usage is proscribed; thus, they are considered wrong according to prescriptive sources.
• Category:Bengali rare terms: Bengali terms that are rare in general use, for whatever reason.
• Category:Bengali slang: Bengali colloquial terms that are typically used to mark membership in a cultural subgroup.
• Category:Bengali terms with archaic senses: Bengali terms that are no longer in general use but still encountered in older literature and still sometimes used for special effect.
• Category:Bengali terms with historical senses: Bengali terms with senses that refer to things or concepts mainly known for their historical value.
• Category:Bengali terms with obsolete senses: Bengali terms that are no longer in current use, but found in older texts.
• Category:Bengali terms with rare senses: Bengali rarely used terms or terms with rarely used senses.
• Category:Bengali terms with transferred senses: Bengali terms with transferred senses.
• Category:Bengali terms with uncommon senses: Bengali uncommonly used terms or terms with uncommonly used senses.
• Category:Bengali trademarks: Bengali terms that identify legal entities, their products and services, by means of legal protection — to some extent, in a number of jurisdictions — against unauthorized use of the terms.
• Category:Bengali uncommon terms: Bengali uncommonly used terms.
• Category:Bengali vulgarities: Bengali terms whose tone (rather than the meaning) is offensive to polite company.