দেল

Middle Bengali

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian دل (dil). Compare Old Hindi दिल (dila), Old Punjabi ਦਿਲੁ (dilu).

Noun

দেল (del)

1. heart, mind

Descendants

• Bengali: দিল (dil)

Further reading

• Sen, Sukumar (1971) An Etymological Dictionary of Bengali: c. 1000-1800 A.D.‎^[1], volume 1, Calcutta: Eastern Publishers, page 448.