ছিন্নমূল
chhinnomul; chhinnamul
Provenance: Reviewed field-research record
Word class
বিশেষণ; মানুষসূচক প্রয়োগ / adjective used of people; Adjective / noun for displaced people
Lexical status
Whole social compound verified. Whole compound verified; augmentation to CHW’s new N248, not another new entry.
Recorded forms
ছিন্নমূল মানুষ; ছিন্নমূল
Research meaning — English
A social description of people lacking settled roots/shelter. When asked about mental-health outreach, the CHW recalls a prior project for people living on the streets (the source transcript). People described as uprooted or displaced and taking refuge in a dense urban settlement; this sense co-occurs with the speaker’s demeaning judgments about class and education.
Research meaning — Bengali
বাসস্থান বা স্থায়ী আশ্রয়ের সঙ্গে সংযোগহীন মানুষের সামাজিক বর্ণনা; এই স্বাস্থ্যকর্মী রাস্তায় থাকা মানুষ নিয়ে আগের একটি কর্মসূচির কথা বলেন। বাসভূমি বা বসতি হারিয়ে বা ছাড়তে বাধ্য হয়ে শহরের ঘনবসতিতে আশ্রয় নেওয়া মানুষ বোঝাতে ব্যবহৃত; একই বয়ানে বক্তা শ্রেণি ও শিক্ষাগত মর্যাদার অবমাননাকর বিচারও জুড়েছেন।
What this research adds
Adds a service-population category that must be kept separate from a mental-illness label and from a claim that every poor resident is displaced. Deepens CHW N248, where street-dwelling people are an outreach population, with an explicit displacement account involving constrained land, livelihood, erosion, expulsion and debt. These are different situational uses of one established term.
Lien avec la santé mentale
Analyst: separates housing/social position from diagnosis. Housing insecurity and exclusion belong to social context; the label does not identify illness.
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
Uprooted/displaced, including use of people. [BCHWLEX08] Uprooted or displaced; applied to people who have been displaced. [BMSLEX06]
Established meaning — Bengali
উৎপাটিত বা স্থায়ী শিকড় হারানো; মানুষ সম্পর্কে বাস্তুচ্যুত অর্থে প্রয়োগ। [BCHWLEX08] উপড়ে যাওয়া বা বাস্তুচ্যুত; মানুষের ক্ষেত্রে বাসভূমি থেকে বিচ্ছিন্ন বা স্থানচ্যুত মানুষ। [BMSLEX06]
Contexte d'utilisation
The response concerns the scope of an earlier BRAC activity; the next turn is an interviewer gloss about homelessness. A medicine seller explains why certain healing practices occur in Korail. His class and education labels and estimate of 80% are attributed judgments, not findings of this review.
Learning from the accounts
Reported effects
A prior outreach activity is recalled; no illness, displacement cause or service outcome is specified for any individual. The narrative connects residential movement to loss of housing and resources and, in one possible example, beating and exclusion. It does not establish the histories of all residents or mental-health effects in each case.
Attributed origins
This CHW gives no account of why the people live on the street. Established ছিন্নমূল is literally associated with uprooting and has a dictionary-verified displaced-person application. Specific migration explanations here are the participant’s account, not lexical etymology.
Variation and visualization
The published term includes uprooted/displaced people; the specific CHW usage foregrounds living on the street. a source record’s displaced/refuge interpretation supplements CHW’s outreach-population use. Supplied English homeless is narrower in some contexts and the rendering of নিম্নশ্রেণীর as lower-income softens the explicit class ranking.
Ce qui reste incertain
Do not infer mental disorder, absence of kin, migration cause or population prevalence from the label. Neither ছিন্নমূল nor current residence establishes homelessness, mental illness, low intelligence or treatment preference in an individual. The possible depression history in a source record is qualified by the speaker and remains unconfirmed.
Commonness and evidence limits
Attested in the cited supplied source contexts; repeated versions and multiple paragraphs are not independent interviews. No population prevalence, community consensus, or shared private image is established. No valid population prevalence is inferred. The participant’s percentage is unverified and must never be reported as a census statistic.
Relationships and comparison
These are scoped relationships from the research record, not claims of universal equivalence.
Synonyms and near-synonyms
নিম্নশ্রেণীর — Occurs in a source record a source record alongside the displacement label. Preserve the attribution and do not turn class ranking into the definition of ছিন্নমূল.
Antonyms and contrasts
No exact local antonym established. Contextual contrasts do not establish a universal lexical opposite.
Across languages
English: uprooted / displaced — Without settled roots or displaced. The CHW’s street-living description is narrower than every form of displacement. [BCHWLEX08] English: displaced / uprooted — People displaced from their place or roots. Dictionary-supported comparator, without imposing a single housing status. [BMSLEX06] English: homeless — Supplied English rendering of ছিন্নমূল in a source record. May underrepresent displacement and migration history; not an independently verified status for all Korail residents.
অংশগ্রহণকারীঃ না, কিছুদিন ব্র্যাক করছিল এটা হইসে যে, ছিন্নমূল মানুষ যারা রাস্তাঘাটে থাকে।
অংশগ্রহণকারীঃ কড়াইলে এগুলা হয় কারণ কড়াইলে ম্যাক্সিমাম মানুষ নিম্নশ্রেণীর । এবং ম্যাক্সিমাম মানুষ মুর্খ । এবং এখানে যারা বসবাস করে তাদের ৮০% মানুষ ছিন্নমূল যাদের বাড়িঘর নেই এখানে আশ্রয় নিয়েছে।
All evidence IDs: E2035; E2278; E2279; E2280; E2281
Points de vue selon différents contextes
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