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Word / Phrase Bengali Bangladesh approved Bangladesh Field Lexicon

স্বামীর শোক; শোক

swamir shok; shok

Provenance: Reviewed field-research record

Word class

noun/noun phrase; grief

Lexical status

শোক and পতিশোক subform verified; local স্বামীর শোক is compositional.

Recorded forms

স্বামীর শোক

Research meaning — English

1. Grief associated with a husband, listed with financial hardship as an explanation for suicidal behavior.

Research meaning — Bengali

1. স্বামীকে ঘিরে শোককে একজন বক্তা আত্মহত্যার সম্ভাব্য কারণগুলোর মধ্যে বলেন; বিস্তারিত ঘটনা নেই।

What this research adds

A loss-related distress term missing as an independent baseline headword.

Mental health connection

This expression identifies a participant meaning or care practice. It does not establish a psychiatric diagnosis or treatment efficacy. Assessment focus: bereavement and grief. 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. Grief or sorrow, including mourning; patishok specifically concerns a husband. [HLEX23] Definition/comparison applies to স্বামীর শোক; শোক.

Established meaning — Bengali

1. শোক মানে দুঃখ বা বিয়োগের বেদনা; পতিশোক স্বামীকে ঘিরে শোক। [HLEX23]

Learning from the accounts

Reported effects

No separate effect is established beyond the quoted use.

Attributed origins

Loss-related grief is invoked but the particular death/event is not narrated.

Variation and visualization

Do not turn this broad explanation into a diagnosis or equate grief with depression.

What is uncertain

No detailed loss narrative is supplied locally; no depression diagnosis follows.

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

পতিশোক — sense-specific synonym. Husband-related grief comparison. [HLEX23]

Antonyms and contrasts

অশোক — lexical antonym. Adjectival free-from-grief sense only; not the tree or proper name. [HLEX23]

Related terms

F25; F07 — linked concepts; not synonym claims.

Across languages

English: grief; mourning Sense-scoped lexical gloss or close semantic comparison. Does not import a diagnostic category or all English associations. [HLEX23]

অংশগ্রহণকারীঃ স্বামীর শোক, সংসারে টাকার অভাব এগুলো কারণ।

All evidence IDs: E1352

Perspectives from different contexts

Perspectives are shown side by side. Similarity does not mean equivalence. No one perspective speaks for an entire culture.

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