(Author’s NOT: Pliss rid ich bhard kearfully)
BONGREZI – The Bong dictionary
(no offence meant to the grate pipul of Waist
Bengal)
By Sudden Shiv
A
Aks – to put a question
to, to enquire, e.g., if you don’t know the whey, aks.
B
Babe – a moving wall of water; flow of water in swells,
on the seas, e.g., during tsunami, huge babes were sin on the bich.
Banga (also Bongo) – the Bangla or Bengali name for
Bangla or Bengal.
Bangdu – a tarm of
endearment, e.g., arre bangdu.
Bard – a worm blooded vertebrate which has feathers and
wings and can fly, e.g., iggle is a big bard.
Barth – the event of being born, e.g., Happy Barth Dey!
Beer – large strong bhild animal with thick far and
shurp claws.
Bent Case – Hindu name, believed
to be a Bong derivative of Venkatesh.
Bhear – to have something on one’s body, e.g., bher a
shart bhen you go.
Bhery – a bhard which emphasizes an adjective or adbharb,
e.g., the swit is bhery good! Misty khub bhalo, bangdu!
Bhojan – devotional songs
sung in praise of God.
Bhore – past tense of bhear.
Bhurk – any activity or
labour which produces something, e.g., bhurk is bhursheep.
Bhurker – one who bhurks,
e.g., ent ees bhery hurd bhurker.
Bich – the strip of land alongside the sea, e.g., the
sisside bich is bhery fine.
Bird – a lyrical poet, one who can recite, e.g.,
Shakespeare is a well known bird.
Bit – to strike violently
or forcefully and repeatedly, e.g., he bit the ship very hurd and the ship
blitted in pen.
Blit – sound made by ship and got, e.g., the ship ees blitting.
Bongo – for all others it is a percussion instrument but
for a Bengali, it is Bengali.
Boss – a vehicle with a long
body and sits for passengers; men public transport of city.
Boston – a place or
tarminus where bosses perk, e.g., Shiboji Nagar Boston in Bengaluru.
Breeze – a structure
nowadays made of still, used to span rivers etc. and which enables pipul to
cross over, e.g., there is a gret still breeze in Kolkata which is called the
Howrah Breeze.
Brif – of short duration. Also, inner garment worn over
the lower part of the body, e.g., brifly he bhore brif.
Briz or Brij – a
gentle wind, e.g., a soft briz ees blowing.
Bridge – supposedly the
barth place of Lord Kisna. Also known as Bridge Bhumi.
C
Car – a dog or mongrel.
Card (also referred to in the plural, i.e., cards) – the curdled form of milk, a kind of yoghurt,
e.g., swit card (misty doi in
Bengali) ees bhery swit end testy.
Case – money in the form
of currency, e.g., herd case.
Cattle – a container in
which to boil liquids, e.g., water for making tea is boiled in cattle.
Cheap – a thin slice,
e.g., a potato cheap.
Cheat – a sleep of pepper,
e.g., he rot a small not on a cheat and saint eat to me.
Chip – inexpensive, of
low price or low quality, e.g., that cur is bhery chip.
Chit – to deceive or
trick somebody, e.g., don’t chit that parson.
Congo – another percussion instrument, rather like a Bongo. Also, Bengali for
a comb.
Corn – Bengali derivative
of Karan, one of the legendary characters from the epic Mahabharata, brother of
the Pandavas.
Corona – Bengali derivative of Karuna – it symbolizes the ring of compassion
around a person rather like the ring around the Sun.
Cur – a wheeled vehicle.
D
Dart – unclean matter; earth, soil; anything worthless.
Dey – one of the seven 24-hour periods in a wick, e.g., there are seven deys in a wick.
Dirt – a sharp-pointed missile; move rapidly.
E –
Each – irritation in the skin which makes one scratch;
a craving to do something.
F
Far – the hairy covering
on an animal’s body that keeps it wurm.
Fast – before anything
else; representing the number 1, e.g., he bit the others and came fast.
Feat – correct or proper;
also, in good health, e.g., he is a feat parson.
Feel – to occupy the
entire space or cover fully, e.g., don’t feel your stomach with potato cheaps.
Fill – to perceive, a
sensation, e.g., if you touch fire, you will fill pen.
First – quick, speedy,
e.g., the ket ken run first.
Fit – an achievement,
e.g., he parformed an extraordinary fit.
Fool – complete, whole, up
to the brim, e.g., his stomach ees fool.
Full – a stupid parson,
e.g., he is a stupid parson.
Fur – a long way off,
e.g., my house is bhery fur from my office.
G
Got – a domesticated
animal, close relation of the ship.
H
Heart – that which is
sustained when we fall, causing pen, e.g., I heart myself and eat pens.
Heat – to strike or bit,
e.g., don’t heat him, he will fill pen.
Hit – to increase the
temperature by placing over a fire, etc., e.g., pliss hit the water in the
cattle.
Hurt – the organ which
bits, pumping blood, e.g., my hurt is bitting.
Hurd – to strike with
great force, e.g., he heat the nail hurd with the hammer.
I
Ibry – itch, all, e.g., itch end ibry theeng is good
here.
Itch – ibry one (from two or more) taken separately,
e.g., I have two legs and itch one is different from the other.
Ist – one of the 4
cardinal directions, opposite of Waste, e.g., the sun rises in the Ist.
J
K
L
M
Meal – a factory with
machines where manufacturing activity is carried on, e.g., a still meal.
Mill – any kind of food;
the regular occasion when food is taken, like breakfast, launch, etc.
N
O
Omit – a Hindu name, short
for Omitabh.
Oui – plural of I, e.g., oui are the pipul of our
nation.
P
Pain – an instrument for
writing.
Paper – a spice, a pungent
condiment, gret combination with salt.
Parson – a man, woman or
child, any human being.
Pepper – a fabric or sheet
made from wood pulp or other fibre used for writing or printing or wrapping.
Pen – distress or
suffering due to injury, illness, etc., e.g., he wus in gret pen.
Person – a priest or
preacher.
Phis – swimmer with fins
and gills, favourite mill of the Bengalis, e.g., these phis ees bhery bhery
terribly testy.
Q
R
Rid – to observe, peruse
and understand the meaning of something written or printed, e.g., he likes to
rid books.
Robi – Bengali for the Sun (also known as Saan).
S
Saan – Bengali for the Sun (also known as Robi).
Sheep – an ocean going
vessel propelled by sails or engines.
Shibojinagar – the famous Austrian body builder who went on to
become a popular Hollywood star, also known as The Tarminator. Not to be confused
with Shiboji Nagar, the Boston
in Bengaluru.
Shiboji Nagar – one of the men Bostons (Boss Tarminus) in
Bengaluru.
Ship – a
domesticated animal, close relation of
the got.
Sit – chair etc. e.g.
pliss tek sit.
Steel – stationary, not
moving, e.g., there wus no briz, eet wus very steel.
Still – an alloy consisting
of iron, carbon and various other elements, also known as the backbone of our
economy, e.g., the gret Howrah
breeze is made of still.
T
Taste – to examine,
determine; an examination, e.g. I have a taste tomorrow.
Test – to determine the
quality or flavour of something by taking some of it in the mouth e.g. he
tested the food and found it terribly testy.
Tree – that which comes after two, i.e., one more than
two.
U
V
W
Warm - any of a number of creeping or burrowing invertebrate animals with long, slender, soft bodies and no limbs; a wick or despicable parson.
Warship – (also bursheep)
to prey.
Waist – one of the 4 cardinal
directions, opposite of Ist, e.g., the sun rises in Ist and sets in Waist.
Waste – inner garment worn
over the upper part of the body, e.g., waste end brif.
West – to squander away,
e.g., don’t west money, shave it.
Wheel – the power of a
parson to control the mind, e.g., he has a strong wheel.
Whey – path or route or
direction, e.g., where there’s a wheel, there’s a whey.
Will – a circular object
that rotates on an axis e.g., the ones fitted to a cur to make it move.
X
Y
Z
Tadpor ami – I am a tadpole
