রেওয়াজ

reowaj

Provenance: Reviewed field-research record

Word class

noun

Lexical status

Whole headword verified; the corpus selects customary care seeking.

Recorded forms

রেওয়াজ সামাজিক একটা রেওয়াজ বংশ-পরম্পরায়; পূর্ববর্তী প্রজন্মের; পুরানো সময়

Research meaning — English

1. An inherited custom offered as an explanation of healer use. Custom is sustained by social support in this account; the interviewer then renames it superstition, and the participant assents while describing decline. Additional transmission and contestation: F01 a source record explains shrine-related visits through forebears and family succession. F03 a source record–a source record describes advice from mothers/aunts and pressure from mothers-in-law, while rejecting the practice as belonging to a previous generation.

Research meaning — Bengali

1. আগে থেকে চলে আসা অভ্যাস বা সামাজিক রীতির কারণে চিকিৎসা বেছে নেওয়ার ব্যাখ্যা। সামাজিক সমর্থনের মধ্যে প্রচলিত চিকিৎসাপথ বজায় থাকার ব্যাখ্যা; প্রশ্নকারী তাকে কুসংস্কার বলে পুনর্নামকরণ করলে বক্তা সায় দিয়ে কমে আসার কথাও বলেন। রীতি পরিবার দিয়ে চলতে পারে, কিন্তু পরিবারের সবাই সমানভাবে মানেন না: এক কর্মী পূর্বপুরুষের সূত্রে দরবারে যাওয়ার কথা বলেন; আরেকজন মা-খালার পরামর্শ ও শাশুড়ির চাপকে আগের প্রজন্মের ধারণা হিসেবে প্রশ্ন করেন।

What this research adds

Adds a customary pathway explanation alongside individual belief, cost and confidence. Baseline N150 uses a source record a source record only. a source record–a source record adds the social-support mechanism, interviewer substitution and qualification about change. Adds within-family generational disagreement and social pressure to the existing inherited-custom concept; it is not a new disease etiology.

মানসিক স্বাস্থ্যের সাথে সম্পর্ক

This is a local descriptive or care expression, not sufficient evidence of any diagnosis. Separate the stated experience/action from an assessment of symptoms, context, course and functioning. Assessment focus: cultural and spiritual explanatory models. These are inquiry domains for the cited account, not diagnoses or interchangeable translations. No diagnosis follows from describing a customary treatment route. Analyst: family transmission and internal dissent coexist.

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. রেওয়াজ denotes established custom or practice. [PRLEX19] Definition/comparison applies to রেওয়াজ.

Established meaning — Bengali

1. রেওয়াজ: সমাজে চালু থাকা রীতি বা অভ্যাস; চর্চার অর্থও আছে। [PRLEX19]

ব্যবহারের প্রেক্ষাপট

a source record a source record asks why people do not go to doctors despite lower reported costs. The exact term কুসংস্কার first appears in the following interviewer prompt. F03 discusses her own child as well as generalized family patterns. Her biomedical alternative explanation is a personal interpretation, not independently verified.

Learning from the accounts

Reported effects

A socially supported care pathway can persist yet be described as declining. Family advice can encourage healer visits; the CHW describes actively resisting that advice.

Attributed origins

Attributed to others supporting customary care, not a measured or universal origin. Cultural transmission is participant-reported and must be distinguished from biological inheritance of illness.

Variation and visualization

The speaker does not establish that every family follows the same custom or shares a single causal model. Custom is not automatically false belief; the category shift is conversationally introduced. Do not assume every older relative favors ritual care or every younger person rejects it.

যা অনিশ্চিত

The seller explains healer use through something handed down as practice, without defining one shared causal belief. No genetic claim, community prevalence or verified historical origin follows from these passages.

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. One speaker's elaboration; not evidence that all customary care is compulsory or irrational. 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.

Relationships and comparison

These are scoped relationships from the research record, not claims of universal equivalence.

Synonyms and near-synonyms

রীতি — sense-specific synonym. Established customary practice. [PRLEX19]

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; S15 — linked concepts; not synonym claims. N161; N151

Across languages

English: custom; practice — custom; practice Sense-scoped lexical gloss. No uniformity of belief or compulsory adherence is implied. [PRLEX19] Urdu: رِواج — custom; practice Formal and semantic comparator. The Urdu entry includes socially current custom and usage. Shared custom sense only; no borrowing direction or identical mental-health practices established. [PRLEX20] Hindi: रिवाज — custom; practice Formal and semantic comparator. The Hindi display identifies socially recognized custom/practice. Same custom sense only; other commercial/circulation senses are not local findings. [PRLEX20]