"কথা" meaning in Bengali

See কথা in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /kɔt̪ʰa/ (note: Rarh), [ˈkɔt̪ʰaˑ] (note: Rarh), /kɔt̪ʰa/ (note: Dhaka), [ˈkɔt̪ʰaˑ] (note: Dhaka) Forms: kotha [romanization]
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Sanskrit कथा (kathā, “conversation, speech”). Etymology templates: {{lbor|bn|sa|कथा|t=conversation, speech}} Learned borrowing from Sanskrit कथा (kathā, “conversation, speech”) Head templates: {{head|bn|noun|||||||||||||||||autotrinfl=1|head=|sort=|tr=|tr2=}} কথা • (kotha), {{bn-noun}} কথা • (kotha)
  1. word, speech, utterance, statement
    Sense id: en-কথা-bn-noun-JfkAD~mo
  2. talk, conversation, discourse
    Sense id: en-কথা-bn-noun-OCc7w0ZZ
  3. topic
    Sense id: en-কথা-bn-noun-I9YRpvb4
  4. saying
    Sense id: en-কথা-bn-noun-bBP~-K5j Categories (other): Pages with 3 entries, Pages with entries, Bengali postpositions Disambiguation of Pages with 3 entries: 3 10 5 4 10 14 3 8 5 13 10 14 0 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 3 10 5 4 10 14 3 8 5 13 10 14 0 Disambiguation of Bengali postpositions: 4 8 9 25 19 25 11
  5. story, tale
    Sense id: en-কথা-bn-noun-0xnU5tA- Categories (other): Pages with 3 entries, Pages with entries, Bengali postpositions Disambiguation of Pages with 3 entries: 3 10 5 4 10 14 3 8 5 13 10 14 0 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 3 10 5 4 10 14 3 8 5 13 10 14 0 Disambiguation of Bengali postpositions: 4 8 9 25 19 25 11
  6. promise
    Sense id: en-কথা-bn-noun-NRPZRSr3 Categories (other): Pages with 3 entries, Pages with entries, Bengali entries with incorrect language header, Bengali postpositions Disambiguation of Pages with 3 entries: 3 10 5 4 10 14 3 8 5 13 10 14 0 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 3 10 5 4 10 14 3 8 5 13 10 14 0 Disambiguation of Bengali entries with incorrect language header: 2 6 23 19 14 37 0 Disambiguation of Bengali postpositions: 4 8 9 25 19 25 11

Postposition

IPA: /kɔt̪ʰa/ (note: Rarh), [ˈkɔt̪ʰaˑ] (note: Rarh), /kɔt̪ʰa/ (note: Dhaka), [ˈkɔt̪ʰaˑ] (note: Dhaka) Forms: kotha [romanization]
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Sanskrit कथा (kathā, “conversation, speech”). Etymology templates: {{lbor|bn|sa|कथा|t=conversation, speech}} Learned borrowing from Sanskrit कथा (kathā, “conversation, speech”) Head templates: {{head|bn|postposition|||head=|sort=|tr=}} কথা • (kotha), {{bn-postposition}} কথা • (kotha)
  1. about
    Sense id: en-কথা-bn-postp-pCYuHJvL Categories (other): Bengali postpositions Disambiguation of Bengali postpositions: 4 8 9 25 19 25 11
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          "english": "What is being talked about (in the conversation)?",
          "roman": "ki niẏe kotha bola hocche?",
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          "english": "There is a saying",
          "roman": "ekṭa kotha ache",
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          "english": "But you have to keep your promise.",
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Bengali dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-06-13 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-06-01 using wiktextract (9c82c1c and f1c2b61). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.