Etymology

dekchi

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Today it means: A round-bottomed cooking pot. Full definition →

Bengali ডেকচি ← Persian دیگ
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The story

  1. Persian · derived fromدیگ“pot”
  2. Bengali · borrowed fromডেকচি
  3. English todaydekchi

Borrowed from Bengali ডেকচি (ḍekci), from a diminutive of Persian دیگ (dêg, “pot”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.