যার মন আছে তার ধন নাই
jar mon achhe tar dhon nai
Provenance: Reviewed field-research record
Word class
proverb; ethical contrast
Lexical status
Local proverb attested twice; do not claim a BA-listed whole expression.
Recorded forms
যার মন আছে তার ধন নাই; যার ধন আছে হের মন নাই
Research meaning — English
1. A proverb contrasting a generous disposition with material means: willingness to help may exist without wealth, while wealth need not bring generosity.
Research meaning — Bengali
1. উপকার করার মন ও অর্থসামর্থ্য একসঙ্গে না থাকার কথায় ব্যবহৃত নৈতিক প্রবাদ।
What this research adds
Shows মন as benevolence, distinct from illness, mood or intellectual functioning.
Mental health connection
This expression identifies a participant meaning or care practice. It does not establish a psychiatric diagnosis or treatment efficacy.
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Established meaning — English
No independent authoritative dictionary definition of this exact whole expression was verified. Its local research meaning is bounded by the cited transcript context.
Established meaning — Bengali
এই সম্পূর্ণ স্থানীয় রূপের স্বতন্ত্র প্রামাণ্য অভিধান-সংজ্ঞা যাচাই করা যায়নি; নিচের গবেষণা-অর্থ সাক্ষাৎকারের নির্দিষ্ট প্রসঙ্গে সীমিত।
Context of use
Care obligation and sharing with people in need.
Learning from the accounts
Reported effects
No separate effect is established beyond the quoted use.
Attributed origins
No origin mechanism is established for this expression.
Variation and visualization
Limited to the cited situated uses; no claim that speakers share an identical private image.
What is uncertain
Local repetition directly anchors the generosity reading. The full proverb was not externally verified here. The local contrast is generous willingness versus financial means.
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
R03 — 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.
অংশগ্রহনকারীঃ অহন ধরেন টাকা-পয়সা নাই, না থাকলে যার মন আছে তার ধন নাই, আর যার ধন আছে হের মন নাই। আমার ধারণা হইলো আমার সামনে একটা রোগী মারা যাইতেসে, তাইলে অবশ্যই আমার এইডার চিকিৎসা করতে ওইবো।
All evidence IDs: E1347; E1348
Perspectives from different contexts
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