পেটের ভাত; পেট চলা
peter bhat; pet chola
Provenance: Reviewed field-research record
Word class
বিশেষ্যগুচ্ছ; বাগ্ভঙ্গি / noun phrase and idiomatic construction
Lexical status
Food and subsistence vocabulary; the transcript’s entire constructions are interpreted in context.
Recorded forms
পেটে ভাত দিতে গেলে; পেটের ভাত জুগাইতে; পেটের কারণে; পেট চঅলে
Research meaning — English
Food and the minimum means of staying alive, invoked to explain work through difficult weather, street-based earning and the inability to save for care.
Research meaning — Bengali
পেটের খাবার ও বেঁচে থাকার ন্যূনতম উপার্জন—যার জন্য আবহাওয়ার কষ্ট সহ্য করে কাজ করা বা রাস্তায় টাকা সংগ্রহের কথা বলা হয়।
What this research adds
Distinguishes a bodily noun used for livelihood from gastrointestinal symptoms and from complete loss of all assets.
Mental health connection
Records a material condition relevant to distress and care access; no gastrointestinal disorder follows.
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Established meaning — English
পেট can mean the abdomen or subsistence, while ভাত refers to cooked rice. [BEMLEX03; BEMLEX04]
Established meaning — Bengali
পেট শরীরের উদর এবং জীবনধারণের উপায়ও বোঝাতে পারে; ভাত হলো সিদ্ধ চাল। [BEMLEX03; BEMLEX04]
Context of use
a source record links work in bad weather to feeding oneself; a source record connects early street work and asking for money to subsistence.
Learning from the accounts
Reported effects
Daily food and rent compete with savings for treatment; obtaining food organizes exposure to heat and rain.
Attributed origins
Poverty, unavailable employment and immediate household costs are explicitly given as circumstances.
Variation and visualization
The typographically unusual পেট চঅলে is quoted unchanged. It is read as a subsistence construction from its money-versus-rent sentence; it is not silently respelled in evidence.
What is uncertain
Select food/livelihood, rather than bowel-function, from this context. The source does not contain the different idiom পেটের ভাত চাল হওয়া.
Commonness and evidence limits
Attested in two of the three reviewed interviews; the recurrent construction does not establish general hunger prevalence.
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.
Across languages
English: subsistence / getting by — Contextual livelihood gloss. Useful for পেট চলা here; literal food should be retained when the sentence is specifically about eating. [BEMLEX03]
অংশ গ্রহণকারীঃ মেঘের দিনে বৃষ্টিতে ভিজে, ঠান্ডা লাগে, শীতে ৩-৪ টা জামাকাপড় গায়ে দিয়ে কাজ করে। গরীব হলে পেটে ভাত দিতে গেলে অনেক কষ্টই করা লাগে।
অংশগ্রহণকারীঃ হ্যাঁ মসজিদে গেছি। মসজিদে ছোটবেলায় গেছি। যাইহোক গেছি আমি এই কড়াইলে গেছি। কিন্তু অন্য জায়গায় যাই নাই। তারপর পেটের ভাত জুগাইতে গিয়ে রাস্তায় নামলাম ।
All evidence IDs: E2117; E2118; E1812; E2119
Perspectives from different contexts
Perspectives are shown side by side. Similarity does not mean equivalence. No one perspective speaks for an entire culture.