Dictionary of the Bengalee Language - In Which Words Are Traced to Their Origin, Their Various Meanings

Informationen zum Autor William Carey (1761-1834) was born in Northampton, England and raised in the Church of England. He adopted Baptist views early in life eventually becoming a Baptist pastor. Sailing from England in 1793 as the first commissioned missionary by London's Baptist Missionary Society (the society he inspired and helped create), his long missions tenure in India included itinerant evangelism, church planting, social reform, Bible translation and printing, and the founding of the Serampore University, the first university in India to award degrees. Klappentext Published in 1825, this is a revised dictionary of the Indo-Aryan language Bengali, containing over 100,000 entries with English translations. Zusammenfassung Published in 1825! this is the third volume of a revised three-part dictionary of the Indo-Aryan language Bengali. Containing over 100!000 entries with English translations! it was intended to include every simple word in the language. The author's reference works on Marathi and Sanskrit are also reissued in this series. Inhaltsverzeichnis Bengalee dictionary.

Product details

• Authors: William Carey
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2013
• EAN: 9781108055161
• ISBN: 978-1-108-05516-1
• No. of pages: 762
• Series: Cambridge Library Collection -; Cambridge Library Collection - Perspectives from the Royal Asiatic Society; A Dictionary of the Bengalee Language
• Subjects: Education and learning > Miscellaneous; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Linguistics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Bengali