Bangla Academy English-Bengali dictionary (Bengali Edition)

DETAILS : 

• Publisher: ‎ Oxford University Press
  
• Publication date: ‎ 1 August 2017
  
• Edition: ‎ Bilingual
  
• Language: ‎ Bengali, English
  
• Print length: ‎ 1504 pages
  
• ISBN-10: ‎ 9840729071
  
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-9840729074
  
• Item Weight: ‎ 1800 g 

ABOUT THE BOOK

Oxford English-English-Bengali Dictionary, critically compiled and edited by the distinguished language experts Dr. Moitreyee Mitra and Dipendranath Mitra, is a monumental and highly authoritative reference work within South Asian lexicography. Published globally by Oxford University Press, this comprehensive volume is meticulously engineered to meet the contemporary needs of students, educators, translators, and general readers. The core philosophy of this dictionary is to provide an intellectually rigorous, multi-layered linguistic bridge between English and the Bengali language. A key feature of this edition is its strict adherence to the standardized spelling guidelines established by the Paschimbanga Bangla Akademi (and often integrated into major regional academic frameworks like the Bangla Academy tracks), ensuring that learners develop a modern, orthographically correct command of both languages.

The volume is structurally organized into a massive, highly scannable layout containing more than 50,000 up-to-date references, related phrases, and idiomatic expressions. Rather than offering basic, literal translations, the text provides exhaustive, parallel definitions and synonyms in both English and Bengali. For modern technical terms that lack direct historical equivalents in traditional Bengali—such as calorie, dashboard, multimedia, and X-ray—the editors supply detailed descriptive definitions while transliterating contemporary digital terms directly into Bengali script to reflect modern linguistic evolution. The dictionary incorporates accurate pronunciation keys using the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) alongside intuitive Bengali phonetic orthography. Furthermore, the text features over 200 helpful visual illustrations to clarify complex concrete nouns, alongside specialized appendices detailing irregular verb forms, prefixes, suffixes, and crucial grammatical notes that serve as a practical language-learning toolkit.

ABOUT THE PUBLISHER 

Oxford University Press is an elite global academic institution and the largest university press in the world, renowned for publishing the definitive gold standards of bilingual and monolingual dictionaries. For this specialized edition, OUP partnered with the formidable editorial team of Dr. Moitreyee Mitra and Dipendranath Mitra. Dr. Mitra, a recognized scholar who retired as Reader in Bengali from the University of Delhi, brings decades of high-level translation experience, while Dipendranath Mitra brings a distinguished publishing legacy from his senior tenure at the Government of India's Publications Division and the Sahitya Akademi.

The authorial and editorial style of this volume is exceptionally precise, user-centric, and contemporary. Writing from the perspective of expert linguists who understand the subtle nuances of cross-cultural communication, the editors explicitly balance formal grammatical constraints with the everyday realities of modern usage, including Indian English variants. By systematically highlighting word derivatives, collocations, and contextual usage notes, their collaborative effort ensures that this reference manual remains an unmatched standard for academic classrooms, translation bureaus, and literary institutions across the Bengali-speaking world.