Etymology

Kishoreganj District

Today it means: One of the thirteen districts in the Dhaka Division of Bangladesh. Full definition →

Bengali কিশোর ← Persian گنج
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The story

  1. Persian · derived fromگنج“treasury, store”
  2. Bengali · derived fromকিশোর“youth, teenager”
  3. English todayKishoreganj District

Named after a market founded by Nanda Kishore Pramanik; thus ultimately a bilingual compound of Bengali কিশোর (kiśōr, “youth, teenager”) + Persian گنج (“treasury, store”).

Words from the same roots

Persianگنج all →

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.