Dear All Respected Members, Dealing with correct Bengali names of various plants is very troublesome. What is West Bengal today is not same with what was Bengal before 1947.
"The language Bengali" in West Bengal and "the language Bengali" in Bangladesh are not always same. There are quite too many dialects and there by results much confusion, confusion not only regarding names of plants but also in other domain. I have heard and read that this variation is more complex in Bangladesh. Our friends from Bangladesh could tell us more. Besides, there exists differences in names used by educated city folks and by common village folks. The following website from Bangladesh supports the names used in FoI site - http://www.banglapedia.org/httpdocs/HT/G_0037.HTM But the above must not be taken granted. Bengali word for 'water' is 'JAL' ( জল ), but it is also 'PAANI' ( পানি ) to a large number of Bengali, both in West Bengal and in Bangladesh. Thank you & Regards, Surajit Koley On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 12:21 PM, Dinesh Valke <[email protected]>wrote: > Many thanks Surajit ji for validating these names. > Very helpful corrections. > Regards. > Dinesh > > > > > On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 10:41 AM, jmgarg1 <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Forwarding again for further discussions & corrections in the matter >> please. >> >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: surajit koley <[email protected]> >> Date: 16 June 2012 21:47 >> Subject: flowers of India >> To: "J.M. Garg" <[email protected]> >> >> >> Good evening Garg Sir, >> >> Now, it's something else. But before i proceed i would humbly like to add >> that i know you must be receiving thousands mails daily to take care of. >> So, it is not necessary to reply me back for all mails i write/forward to >> you. I just wish that our group, or any other website maintained by Indians >> should always display zero error data on everything they put on web for >> world wide view. >> >> I noticed some discrepancies in the Flowers of India >> site<http://www.flowersofindia.net/>regarding Bengali names of species. >> Presently i would like to draw you kind >> attention regarding two species - >> >> 1. *Tamarindus indica* - >> http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Tamarind.html >> The Bengali name of the above is TENTUL ( তেঁতুল ), never AMLI, though >> some Hindi speaking people of West Bengal use IMLI. >> >> 2. *Combretum indicum* (syn. *Quisqualis indica*) - >> http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Rangoon%20Creeper.html >> The Bengali (also in Assam) name of the above is MADHABI LATA ( মাধবীলতা >> ), it is the common name we use for the same. But there is another Bengali >> name, BRAHMOLATA, which no one uses here. I am attaching an image file, >> recorded from the book "Plant Groups" (a college text book by H. Mukherji), >> here for your perusal. >> >> 3. *Hiptage benghalensis* - >> http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Madhavi%20Lata.html >> For the same reason as in point 2. this plant cannot be MADHABILATA in >> Bengali. I do not know its Bengali name, i think it is uncommon in West >> Bengal. >> >> Regards, >> >> Surajit Koley >> >> >> >> -- >> With regards, >> J.M.Garg >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 >> 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' >> The whole world uses my Image Resource of more than a *thousand species*& >> eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged >> alphabetically & place-wise): >> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg. You can also use >> them for free as per Creative Commons license attached with each image. >> For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, >> please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group: >> http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix (more than 1870 members & >> 1,18,000 messages on 31/5/12) or Efloraofindia website: >> https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/ (with a species database >> of more than 6500 species). >> Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of >> India'. >> >> >
