লুকোচুরি
lukochuri
Provenance: Reviewed field-research record
Word class
বিশেষ্য; করা-সহ ক্রিয়াপদ / noun in verbal construction
Lexical status
Established noun with game and concealment senses; only concealment is used here.
Recorded forms
লুকোচুরি করে
Research meaning — English
Concealing or declining to discuss suicide. The participant adopts a term supplied in the interviewer’s alternative question.
Research meaning — Bengali
আত্মহত্যা নিয়ে কথা বলা এড়িয়ে গোপন রাখাকে বোঝায়; সাক্ষাৎকারগ্রহণকারীর দেওয়া বিকল্পটি বক্তা গ্রহণ করেন।
What this research adds
Adds the lexical item and separates an elicited concealment judgement from independently volunteered shame or suicidal intent.
ذہنی صحت سے تعلق
Relevant to opportunities for disclosure and help-seeking.
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
A hiding game; separately, concealment or keeping a matter secret. [BTHLEX03]
Established meaning — Bengali
এক ধরনের লুকিয়ে থাকার খেলা; আলাদা অর্থে কথা বা বিষয় গোপন রাখা। [BTHLEX03]
استعمال کا تناظر
Generalized account of discussion practices, followed by a hypothetical question about helping a person at risk.
Learning from the accounts
Reported effects
The speaker says discussion occurs after an act; separately, when offered a comfort-versus-concealment alternative, he selects concealment. The earlier reply says people do not understand beforehand, not that they deliberately conceal beforehand.
Attributed origins
No motive for concealment is specified in this exchange.
Variation and visualization
The noun’s literal play sense is dictionary-established but not attested in this mental-health passage.
کیا غیر یقینی ہے
Does not establish that this participant has suicidal thoughts, nor that concealment is caused by shame, fear or a particular disorder.
Commonness and evidence limits
One prompted exchange in OCT05-a source record / NTFH09. It is not evidence that all local people conceal suicidal thoughts.
Relationships and comparison
These are scoped relationships from the research record, not claims of universal equivalence.
Synonyms and near-synonyms
গোপন রাখা — Concealment sense only.
Antonyms and contrasts
No exact local antonym established. Contextual contrasts do not establish a universal lexical opposite.
Across languages
English: concealment; figurative hide-and-seek — Withholding or hiding a matter. Concealment is the relevant sense; translating only as a children’s game would mislead. [BTHLEX03; BTHLEX04]
সাক্ষাৎকার গ্রহণকারীঃ আত্মহত্যা বিষয়ক আলোচনা করতে স্বাচ্ছন্দবোধ করে নাকি লুকোচুরি করে?
অংশগ্রহণকারীঃ না লুকোচুরি করে। বলতে চায় না।
All evidence IDs: E2198; E2199; E2200; E2201; E2202; E2203
مختلف تناظر سے نقطہ ہائے نظر
نقطہ ہائے نظر ساتھ ساتھ دکھائے جاتے ہیں۔ مماثلت کا مطلب برابری نہیں۔ کوئی ایک نقطہ نظر پوری ثقافت کی نمائندگی نہیں کرتا۔