Accessible Dictionary (Bangladesh government) — অভিমান (abhiman), Bengali-to-English entry

Author: unauthored (a Bengali-to-English dictionary published by the Government of Bangladesh)
Publication: Accessible Dictionary (accessibledictionary.gov.bd), Bengali-to-English
Date: undated (dictionary entry, no publication date given)
URL: https://accessibledictionary.gov.bd/bengali-to-english/?q=অভিমান
Type: primary (a government-published bilingual dictionary entry) — neutral, lexicographic
Accessed: 2026-09-06

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Gives three senses for অভিমান in a single entry, in this order: (1) "offended state of mind; pique; sensitiveness; mental perturbation (caused by undesirable conduct of a near and dear one)"; (2) "pride; conceit; egoism"; (3) "sense of self-respect."
The related adjective অভিমানী is glossed "sensitive; proud; haughty."
This is this project's first primary monolingual/bilingual dictionary entry (for any of the three languages studied — Bengali, Odia, Hindi) to record both senses of the historical split under a single headword, rather than one sense per language as the academic literature's own aggregate claims imply: the entry lists the modern relational/hurt sense first, ahead of the older pride/ego sense, suggesting the relational sense is now the dictionary's own primary or most salient sense for Bengali specifically — consistent with, and strengthening, Mukherjee & Das's (2018) corpus finding that only 27% of Bengali translators reached for "pride."

Whether this dictionary draws on or supersedes the Bangla Academy's own print dictionary (the standard scholarly reference for Bengali) is not stated on the page; the government sponsorship is treated here as sufficient for "primary," but not verified as the single authoritative Bengali lexicographic source.
No Odia-language equivalent dictionary entry was found this session (see NEXT.md) — this record covers Bengali only.