Pa > References for ‘palte’
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[36] The common Bengali word palte is Farsi. The Farsi word palitá became palte in spoken Bengali. The part which is added to an oil lamp and lit, the wick, is called palte. However if it burns at the top [...] Salte is a native Bengali word.
[4] The few foreign words found in [...] [paper], vanát [velvet], palte [wick], adálat [court of [...] Saptagram in the district of Hooghly.