খোঁজ নেওয়া
khoj neoa
Provenance: Reviewed field-research record
Word class
verbal expression; care follow-up
Lexical status
Whole খোঁজ নেওয়া / খোঁজ খবর নেওয়া subexpressions verified.
Recorded forms
খোঁজ নেই; কুশল বিনিময় খবর নেই; খবর নেয়; খোঁজ খবর নেয়া; ফোনে খবর নিয়ে; কুশল বিনিময় করার চেষ্টা
Research meaning — English
1. Actively checking on someone’s care and living situation, contrasted here with merely exchanging greetings. Additional senses of follow-up include reciprocal visiting/contact after previously being excluded from homes (a source record a source record), checking whether treatment can continue (a source record a source record), and telephone contact that leads to medicines being delivered (the source transcript). Trying to exchange greetings and become acquainted with a patient’s guardian or relative as an opening for conversation and possible hospital guidance.
Research meaning — Bengali
1. কেবল কুশল বিনিময় নয়, চিকিৎসা, খাবার ও সার্বিক অবস্থা জিজ্ঞেস করে খেয়াল রাখা। খোঁজ নেওয়া একতরফা তথ্য জিজ্ঞাসা নয়: একটি বয়ানে বাসায় ঢুকতে না দেওয়া থেকে বসতে দেওয়া এবং দুপক্ষের খবর নেওয়ার সম্পর্ক হয়; অন্য বয়ানে চিকিৎসা চালানো যাচ্ছে কি না দেখা ও ফোনে ওষুধের প্রয়োজন জেনে পৌঁছে দেওয়াও এর অংশ। রোগীর অভিভাবক বা আত্মীয়ের সঙ্গে পরিচয় ও শুভেচ্ছা বিনিময় করে কথা শুরু করার চেষ্টা; এখানে হাসপাতালের পরামর্শ দেওয়ার প্রস্তুতিমূলক সম্পর্ক তৈরির অংশ।
What this research adds
Explicit local contrast gives a concrete definition of relational follow-up. Extends the baseline contrast with mere greetings into reciprocity, continuity and practical response. N104 already indexes কুশল বিনিময়, including a prior contrast in which greeting is insufficient for meaningful follow-up. This passage adds greeting as an intentional opener, without counting the expression as new or treating it as completed follow-up.
Lien avec la santé mentale
This expression identifies a participant meaning or care practice. It does not establish a psychiatric diagnosis or treatment efficacy. Analyst: keeps checking, listening and acting on needs connected without equating them. Greeting may facilitate a respectful conversation but is not a clinical assessment or a measured therapeutic effect.
Safe messaging for media
- Use the expression in its stated context; do not present it as a diagnosis or universal translation.
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Established meaning — English
1. Inquiring into a person’s condition or welfare. [HLEX15] Definition/comparison applies to খোঁজ নেওয়া. To exchange greetings or compliments. [BMSLEX12]
Established meaning — Bengali
1. কেমন আছে বা কী অবস্থা তা জিজ্ঞেস করে খবর নেওয়া। [HLEX15] শুভেচ্ছা বা কুশল বিনিময় করা। [BMSLEX12]
Contexte d'utilisation
Replaces prior distancing based on Pagol labeling. The phone account concerns continuing general health support, not a verified mental-health-specific digital intervention. A guardian or relative visits the pharmacy to buy items or obtain prescribed medicines. The Bangla specifies relatives, while one supplied English paragraph shifts the conversational target to the patient.
Learning from the accounts
Reported effects
No separate effect is established beyond the quoted use. Workers describe improved access to homes and action on identified needs; these are self-reported practices, not measured service effectiveness. The seller says he now attends more to patient relatives and tries to guide them toward hospital care. He explicitly says later that he has not referred anyone.
Attributed origins
No origin mechanism is established for this expression. Changed household reception is attributed to outreach; financial and medication needs shape follow-up. কুশল বিনিময় is a dictionary-verified whole expression for exchanging greetings; the training-related use as an engagement step is local.
Variation and visualization
Limited to the cited situated uses; no claim that speakers share an identical private image. Already-indexed a source record a source record provides the greeting contrast; it is not proposed as new evidence here. Repeated চেষ্টা marks attempted action. The transcript differentiates discussion with a prescription-holder from treating a patient or achieving referral.
Ce qui reste incertain
Participant distinguishes meaningful care follow-up from ordinary greetings. Not every telephone call constitutes clinical monitoring, and no treatment outcome is established. Do not count attempted guidance as a completed referral, interpret all greeting as substantial care, or silently change the addressee from family member to patient.
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. Added evidence/senses from the supplied CHW contexts, not new interviews. Repeated files, reused paragraphs and observer judgments do not establish prevalence, consensus or universal imagery. Several paragraphs from one participant; the existing N104 evidence supplies a contrasting evaluation of mere greeting.
Relationships and comparison
These are scoped relationships from the research record, not claims of universal equivalence.
Synonyms and near-synonyms
কুশল বিনিময় — contextual contrast. More superficial earlier contact, not a lexical antonym of follow-up.
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
P01 — linked concepts; not synonym claims. N105 — Checking on someone is one situated care action.
Across languages
English: check on someone; inquire after welfare Sense-scoped lexical gloss or close semantic comparison. Does not import a diagnostic category or all English associations. [HLEX15] English: exchange greetings — An ordinary greeting exchange. Fits the lexical expression; the intention to facilitate referral is contextual and not inherent in the dictionary definition. [BMSLEX12]
অংশগ্রহণকারীঃ আগে তো যেতাম। শুধু কুশল বিনিময় করতাম। তেমন কোনো আগ্রহ ছিল না। এখন জিজ্ঞাসা করি যে, চিকিৎসা, খাবার,সার্বিক অবস্থা। আগে তো পাগল মনে করে দূরে দূরে থাকতাম। এখন খোঁজ নেই।
All evidence IDs: E1335; E2057; E2058; E2059; E2291; E2292; E2293; E2294
Points de vue selon différents contextes
Les points de vue sont présentés côte à côte. Une ressemblance ne signifie pas une équivalence. Aucun point de vue ne parle au nom de toute une culture.