বান কাটানো
ban katano
Provenance: Reviewed field-research record
Word class
expression / phrase
Lexical status
বাণ component verified; removal compound corpus-attested
Recorded forms
বান কাটিয়ে; বান কাটানো
Research meaning — English
1. A claimed ritual treatment intended to remove ban believed inflicted on a person, listed alongside medicine and amulets.
Research meaning — Bengali
1. কারও মারা বান দূর করার দাবি করা আচারভিত্তিক চিকিৎসা।
What this research adds
Distinguishes the alleged harmful act from an action claimed to remove it.
Relación con la salud mental
Relevant assessment domains are descriptive only; no diagnosis is assigned. Assessment focus: cultural and spiritual explanatory models. These are inquiry domains for the cited account, not diagnoses or interchangeable translations.
Safe messaging for media
- Use the expression in its stated context; do not present it as a diagnosis or universal translation.
- Avoid describing a person by a stigmatizing term unless the person self-identifies that way and the wording is necessary.
- For suicide-related coverage, avoid method detail, sensational headlines, and single-cause explanations; include help-seeking information.
- Link to this entry’s evidence limits and distinguish contributor wording from analyst interpretation.
Established meaning — English
1. One ban sense concerns incantation-associated harm; removal is the local claimed treatment action. [CBLEX18] Definition/comparison applies to বান কাটানো. The source spells বান; dictionary বাণ is a plausible standard component comparison, not a silent source correction. No ritual efficacy verified.
Established meaning — Bengali
1. বাণের একটি অর্থ মন্ত্র-সম্পর্কিত ক্ষতিকর অস্ত্র; কাটানো অংশটি স্থানীয় বর্ণনায় তা দূর করার দাবি। [CBLEX18]
Learning from the accounts
Reported effects
Provider claims improvement; no independently observed efficacy is established.
Attributed origins
Ban is attributed to others inflicting harm in the provider account.
Variation and visualization
An account-specific usage; no shared private imagery is established.
Qué es incierto
The source spells বান; dictionary বাণ is a plausible standard component comparison, not a silent source correction. No ritual efficacy verified.
Commonness and evidence limits
These are selected qualitative occurrences in supplied source files and versions. Repeated files or passages do not add independent testimony. Neither frequency in the population nor identical understanding or private imagery is established by these selections.
Relationships and comparison
These are scoped relationships from the research record, not claims of universal equivalence.
Synonyms and near-synonyms
No exact synonym established for the locally recorded expression. Related words and clinical comparisons are listed separately.
Antonyms and contrasts
No antonym established for this local use. Absence of illness, normality, obedience and recovery are not supplied as invented opposites.
Related terms
S12 — linked concepts; not synonym claims.
Across languages
No independently verified cross-language lexical equivalent has been established for this whole local expression. The English research definition is an analyst gloss, not an asserted universal translation.
অংশ গ্রহণকারীঃ কত জন বান,টান মারে না। বান কাটিয়ে চিকিৎসা দিলে ভাল হয়ে যায়।
All evidence IDs: E1112; E1113
Perspectivas de distintos contextos
Las perspectivas se muestran una junto a otra. Parecerse no significa ser equivalente. Ninguna perspectiva habla en nombre de toda una cultura.