ডুমুর
Bengali
Etymology
Inherited from Sanskrit *डुम्बर (ḍumbara), of non-Aryan substrate (possibly Munda) origin. From the same substrate were possibly borrowed other words for plants: Sanskrit उदुम्बर (udumbara), "cluster fig"; जम्बु (jambu, “jambul”); जम्बीर (jambīra, “citron”); तुम्ब (tumba, “Lagenaria vulgaris gourd”); कुस्तुम्बरी (kustumbarī, “coriander”), काकम्बीर (kākambīra, “a certain tree”); कियाम्बु (kiyāmbu, “water plant”); शिम्बल (śimbala, “silk cotton tree”); silk cotton tree; दाडिम (dāḍima, “pomegranate”), अलाबु (alābu, “bottle gourd”), निम्बू (nimbū, “lemon”), कदम्ब (kadamba, “cadamba tree”) and perhaps Sumerian 𒊷 (g̃ešnimbar) and Akkadian 𒊷 (gišimmarum) "date palm". There seems to be a repeated use of the classifier "-mb(i/u/a)(r/l)", which may have been a feature of the ancestral language. Cognate with Sylheti ꠒꠦꠃꠋꠞꠣ (ḍeuṅra), Chittagonian ডইঁর (ḍoĩr), Assamese ডিমৰু (dimoru), Odia ଡିମିରି (ḍimiri), ଡିମ୍ବିରି (ḍimbiri). For other sets of substrate borrowings, see চিংড়ি (ciṅṛi) and ঝিনুক (jhinuk).