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Explore Bengali probad with transliteration, literal translation, real meaning, a Bangla gloss and usage notes.
Bengali Probad Explorer is a searchable collection of 30 Bengali proverbs, each shown with a transliteration, a strictly literal translation, the meaning it carries in real use, a Bangla gloss and the closest English proverb where one honestly exists. A probad is a complete saying quoted unchanged, while a bagdhara is the phrase-level idiom that has to be fitted into a sentence. A seeded four-option quiz draws both the question and its distractors from the same set.
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The word-for-word reading is a separate field from the real sense, which is where most misreadings start.
Every proverb carries a one-line explanation in Bangla for students working in the language.
An English proverb appears only when it really matches; entries with no counterpart say so rather than inventing one.
A probad (প্রবাদ) is a complete proverb quoted as it stands, such as অতি লোভে তাঁতি নষ্ট. A bagdhara (বাগধারা) is an idiomatic phrase that must be conjugated into a sentence, which is why exam papers ask you to use a bagdhara in a sentence but to explain a probad.
It means celebrating a result long before it is anywhere near certain — literally, the jackfruit is still on the tree while the oil is already on the moustache, ready for eating it. The English counterpart is 'do not count your chickens before they hatch'.
It describes someone so badly hurt once that anything resembling the danger frightens them: a cow whose shed burned down panics even at a red-tinged cloud. It matches 'once bitten, twice shy'.
Proverbs live in speech, so forms vary between West Bengal and Bangladesh, between regional dialects, and between fuller and shortened versions. The forms here follow those most commonly printed in proverb collections and school readers.