টাকা গেলে টাকা পাবা; জীবন গেলে জীবন পাবা না
taka gele taka paba; jibon gele jibon paba na
Provenance: Reviewed field-research record
Word class
Expression; context-specific phrase
Lexical status
টাকা and জীবন components verified; full maxim-like utterance not verified as an established proverb.
Recorded forms
টাকা গেলে টাকা পাবা; জীবন গেলে জীবন পাবা না
Research meaning — English
A proverbial comparison in a hypothetical suicide-prevention response: money can be regained, whereas life once lost cannot.
Research meaning — Bengali
আত্মহত্যা ঠেকানোর কাল্পনিক পরিস্থিতিতে টাকা ফেরত পাওয়া সম্ভব কিন্তু হারানো জীবন ফেরত পাওয়া যায় না—এই তুলনায় বোঝানোর প্রবাদসদৃশ ভাষা।
What this research adds
Indexes a proposed form of moral and practical persuasion, not an observed intervention or evidence of prevention efficacy.
Mental health connection
Treat this as proposed lay response language. It does not establish sufficient crisis care or a successful intervention.
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
Taka denotes money; jibon denotes life/living. [REC-LBLEX10; REC-LBLEX09]
Established meaning — Bengali
টাকা অর্থ বা ধন; জীবন প্রাণ ও বেঁচে থাকা। [REC-LBLEX10; REC-LBLEX09]
Context of use
a source record is an EM/provider-context transcript. Preserve the hypothetical future stance and religious characterization in the full quotation.
Learning from the accounts
Reported effects
The speaker proposes telling someone not to act, explaining the loss comparison, and then leaving.
Attributed origins
Elicited by the interviewer’s hypothetical question; not spontaneous disclosure of the speaker’s own wish to die.
Variation and visualization
No shared saying frequency or demonstrated outcome is established.
What is uncertain
Treat this as proposed lay response language. It does not establish sufficient crisis care or a successful intervention.
Commonness and evidence limits
These are selected source occurrences, not population frequencies. Duplicate files and reused evidence do not add independent testimony. No shared private image is established.
Relationships and comparison
These are scoped relationships from the research record, not claims of universal equivalence.
Synonyms and near-synonyms
No exact local synonym established by the cited selections; related and dictionary-sense relationships are recorded separately.
Antonyms and contrasts
No exact local antonym established. Contextual contrasts do not establish a universal lexical opposite.
Related terms
F25; N058
Across languages
The English local definition is an analyst gloss. A separately verified other-language counterpart is not established for this complete local expression.
স্বাক্ষাত কার গ্রহণ কারীঃ ধরেন কড়াইলে কেউ আত্মহত্যার চেষ্ঠা করলে কি করবেন?
অংশ গ্রহণ কারীঃ বলব তুমি এ কাজ করো না। আত্মহত্যা করা মহাপাপ। আত্মহত্যা আটকাতে বুঝ দিব। টাকা গেলে টাকা পাবা; জীবন গেলে জীবন পাবা না। এরপর চলে আসব।
All evidence IDs: E1805; E1116
Perspectives from different contexts
Perspectives are shown side by side. Similarity does not mean equivalence. No one perspective speaks for an entire culture.