Bongrezi

(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