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Registration
Each user needs to set up an unique identity on the system. Since we want to make sure that we can easily communicate with users, we have chosen an user's
Email ID as the most practical and useful unique ID. The user's
Name (separated as First Name and Last Name) is useful when communicating with them. Finally, we want to save the geographical
location of a user to be sensitive to their time zone when communicating by phone or streaming video that may be useful for the learning process.
Please register by filling in
the Registration form. Make sure that the email ID you enter is easily accessible to you. All system communications will be sent to this email. If an invalid email is entered, the registration will be immediately deleted.
The password should be more than 7 characters. Longer passwords are more secure. It is highly recommended that you choose an unique password for each site that you visit. Some people choose a phrase like "WhereTheMindIsWithoutFear" (a famous Tagore poem) so that they can easily remember their password. The password is not displayed on any online screen. In the Welcome email, only the first and last two characters are shown for security reasons. If you forget the password, you will have to register again, and all your usage history will be lost.
After successful registration, an email will be sent to you with
Subject: Welcome to supriyosen.net to acknowledge
successful registration, document your Profile and to provide a guide to the various capabilities of the site.
Please save this email to remember your credentials. A database record is created on the supriyosen.net server to identify you for subsequent visits.
A registered user can use multiple devices and only needs to login from each device as necessary. For example, I use an iMac, an iPad, and an iPhone. For testing, I also have set up a Windows 10 and a Linux Ubuntu 14 under VirtualBox, an App that runs under Mac OS. Only one registration is required.
Since Registration sets up your profile, you should Register again if you want to change your Password, Name or Location. If you want to change your Email ID, you need to register as a new user. The history of your activities can be manually coordinated by sending an email to supriyosen.net@gmail.com.
The registration record on the server will be removed after six months of inactivity or on your emailed request. Registered users will get an activity status report by email twice a month.
Login
For your convenience, the system has been designed to remember your Login credentials on any computer, tablet or smartphone for 90 days from your last visit. If you are a frequent visitor, you can expect to be "auto logged-in" and go directly to the site,
Browser settings on some computers may restricts how long login credentials will be remembered. Public computers like the local Library or Internet Cafes usually reset every day. In these cases, the auto-login will not be effective and you will have to Login every time.
If you are not auto logged-in when you access the site, please
Login using
the login panel.
Names of Relatives in Bangla
Family is very important to Bengalis. Large families often lived together, with many generations under one roof. Often, a young man would marry and he and his bride would continue to live in the family homestead. Such families were called "Joint families". This is becoming much less common with young people moving away to college and jobs, especially in the urban areas, forming what in Western cultures is known as the "Nuclear family."
There is, for example, no Bangla word for cousin. All cousins are called brothers or sisters with an adjective (like "paternal uncle's son") as in
ও আমার মামাতো ভাই O amar mamatO bhai to describe a cousin who is your maternal uncle's son.
In Western cultures, a father's brother or mother's brother is an uncle, and a father's sister or mother's sister is an aunt. In Bangla, we have different names for siblings of our parents.
It was also considered impolite and disrespectful to use somebody's name when talking to them directly, especially one's husband or older relative. It is common to hear a wife call her husband
ওগো, আমার কাছে আসবে? OgO, amar kachhe asobe? to ask her husband to come near her.
In a large family, each brother or sister was given a "placeholder" name for them to be referred to by their younger siblings. The most common were
বড়দা, মেজদা, ছোড়দা boRoda, mejoda, chhORoda for the eldest, middle and youngest brother and the corresponding
বড়দি, মেজদি, ছোড়দি boRodi, mejodi, chhORodi for sisters.
For the sake of completeness, I should mention that remarriages did take place usually by men whose wife had died. The prefix
সৎ- sot^- means "step" in English. So you could derive a whole set of words like
সৎমা, সৎবাবা, সৎদাদা, সৎভাই, সৎদিদি, সৎবোন, সৎমেয়ে, সৎছেলে sot^ma, sot^baba, sot^dada, sot^bhai, sot^didi, sot^bOn, sot^meye, sot^chhele to mean "stepmother, stepfather, stepbrother, stepbrother, stepsister, stepsister, stepdaughter and stepson" respectively.
The words for relatives' names as commonly used in West Bengal are summarized by generational markers in the list below. In Bangladesh, a few of the words are different, like abba for father and chacha for paternal uncle, but the basic pattern of naming is similar. For simplicity, I have not included Bangladesh variations in this list.
Grandparents
English | Bangla |
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maternal grandfather | দাদু (da‧du) |
maternal grandmother | দিদিমা (di‧di‧ma) |
paternal grandfather | ঠাকুরদাদা (Tha‧ku‧ro‧da‧da) |
paternal grandmother | ঠাকুরমা (Tha‧ku‧ro‧ma) |
grandfather-in-law | দাদাশ্বশুর (da‧dash‧wo‧shur) |
grandmother-in-law | দিদিশাশুরি (di‧di‧sha‧shu‧ri) |
Parents
English | Bangla |
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mother | মা (ma) |
father | বাবা (ba‧ba) |
father-in-law | শ্বশুর (shwo‧shur) |
mother-in-law | শাশুরি (sha‧shu‧ri) |
Parents' Siblings - Mother's side
English | Bangla |
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maternal uncle | মামা (ma‧ma) |
maternal aunt | মাসি (ma‧si) |
wife of maternal uncle | মামিমা (ma‧mi‧ma) |
husband of maternal aunt | মেসো (me‧sO) |
Parents' Siblings - Father's side
English | Bangla |
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paternal uncle(older than father) | জেঠা (je‧Tha) |
paternal uncle(younger than father) | কাকা (ka‧ka) |
paternal aunt | পিসি (pi‧si) |
wife of paternal uncle(older) | জেঠিমা (je‧Thi‧ma) |
wife of paternal uncle(younger) | কাকিমা (ka‧ki‧ma) |
husband of paternal aunt | পিসে (pi‧se) |
Us-current generation
English | Bangla |
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husband | স্বামী (swa‧mI) |
husband | বর (bo‧r) |
wife | স্ত্রী (strI) |
wife | বউ (bou) |
Siblings
English | Bangla |
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elder brother | দাদা (da‧da) |
younger brother | ভাই (bha‧i) |
elder sister | দিদি (di‧di) |
younger sister | বোন (bOn) |
wife of elder brother | বউদি (bo‧udi) |
wife of younger brother | ভাইবউ (bha‧ibou) |
husband of sister | ভগিনীপতি (bho‧gi‧nI‧po‧ti) |
Siblings-in-law
English | Bangla |
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brother of husband | ঠাকুরপো (Tha‧ku‧ro‧pO) |
sister of husband | ঠাকুরঝি (Tha‧ku‧ro‧jhi) |
brother of wife | শালা (sha‧la) |
sister of wife | শালি (sha‧li) |
Cousins
English | Bangla |
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children of jeTha | জেঠতুতো দাদা/ভাই/দিদি/বোন (je‧Tho‧tu‧tO da‧da/bha‧i/di‧di/bOn) |
children of kaka | খুড়তুতো দাদা/ভাই/দিদি/বোন (khu‧Ro‧tu‧tO da‧da/bha‧i/di‧di/bOn) |
children of pisi | পিসতুতো দাদা/ভাই/দিদি/বোন (pi‧so‧tu‧tO da‧da/bha‧i/di‧di/bOn) |
children of mama | মামাতো দাদা/ভাই/দিদি/বোন (ma‧ma‧tO da‧da/bha‧i/di‧di/bOn) |
children of mashi | মাসতুতো দাদা/ভাই/দিদি/বোন (ma‧so‧tu‧tO da‧da/bha‧i/di‧di/bOn) |
Children
English | Bangla |
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daughter | মেয়ে (me‧ye) |
son | ছেলে (chhe‧le) |
daughter-in-law | বউমা (bo‧uma) |
son-in-law | জামাই (ja‧ma‧i) |
Grandchildren
English | Bangla |
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granddaughter | নাতনি (na‧to‧ni) |
grandson | নাতি (na‧ti) |
husband of granddaughter | নাতজামাই (na‧to‧ja‧ma‧i) |
wife of grandson | নাতবউ (na‧tobou) |