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Inherited from Sanskrit ৱরম্ (varam). Compare Assamese বৰং (boroṅ), Odia ବରଂ (baraṁ), Hindi वरन (varan).
বরং • (boroṅ)
- rather, instead
- Subhasha Bhattacarya, Sailendra Biswas, Sailendra Biswas, and Jnanendramohana Dasa (2022) “বরং”, in Digital Dictionaries of South Asia [Combined Bengali Dictionaries]
- Accessible Dictionary, Bengali-English, বরং, Government of Bangladesh