পরী
pori / parī
Provenance: Reviewed field-research record
Word class
বিশেষ্য / noun
Lexical status
Established Bangla headword; the dictionary’s beauty-related senses and the transcript’s agentive uses must be distinguished.
Recorded forms
পরী; জ্বীন-পরী; জ্বিন-পরী; পরীতে লইয়া গেছে
Research meaning — English
1. Pari is explicitly separated from jinn by one speaker; a healer describes a human-form appearance. 2. Joint jinn–pari language includes protection, alongside explicit rejection of a practitioner’s particular seven-entity attribution.
Research meaning — Bengali
1. এক বক্তার শ্রেণিবিভাগে পরী ও জ্বীন আলাদা; একজন কবিরাজের বর্ণনায় পরী মানুষের রূপে চলাচল করে। 2. যৌথ জ্বিন-পরী বর্ণনায় রক্ষাকারী ভূমিকা আছে; সাতটি সত্তা সঙ্গী হওয়ার নির্দিষ্ট দাবিতে অবিশ্বাসও আছে।
What this research adds
Shares the supernatural-being semantic domain, but the selected healer does not supply the dictionary’s winged image. Separates lexical stereotype from actual described appearance and preserves a speaker’s categorical distinction. Contextual agency and stance exceed a simple fairy gloss. Allows qualified belief and protection to be coded separately; neither complete acceptance nor complete rejection is inferred.
Lien avec la santé mentale
One participant explicitly distinguishes pari from jinn while another describes a human-form appearance. Protection and disbelief in a particular numerical attribution demonstrate that belief is neither uniformly harmful nor all-or-nothing.
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
1. An imagined beautiful female being with wings. [SLEXB01] 2. A figurative designation for a very beautiful woman. [SLEXB01]
Established meaning — Bengali
1. ডানাযুক্ত সুন্দরী নারীরূপে কল্পিত এক সত্তা। [SLEXB01] 2. রূপক অর্থে অতি সুন্দর নারী। [SLEXB01]
Contexte d'utilisation
Practitioner identification and the affected person’s own account do not align straightforwardly. The same interview contains rejection of a particular numerical attribution and a later protective account.
Learning from the accounts
Reported effects
The healer’s paragraph combines jinn and pari before describing disturbance and possible removal of a person; those effects cannot safely be assigned exclusively to pari. PE-M01 instead attributes protection from other people’s attacks to associated jinn–pari. Harm and protection therefore occupy different accounts.
Attributed origins
The healer says these entities may affect someone at any time. The quoted material does not explain the origin of pari themselves. PE-M01 reports that a practitioner identified seven jinn–pari as accompanying him, while expressly stating disbelief in that claim.
Variation and visualization
Do not convert qualified or changing positions into either complete acceptance or complete rejection. A human-form description, a named distinction, and combined protective language establish varied uses; they do not establish an identical mental image for all participants.
Ce qui reste incertain
A clinical link requires an individual experience beyond the entity name and must preserve the scope of each acceptance or denial. “Fairy” may carry unrelated English imagery, so retain pari and explain the participant’s account rather than assume a shared appearance.
Commonness and evidence limits
The supplied selections attest usage and variation; they do not estimate population prevalence or prove a universally shared image.
Relationships and comparison
These are scoped relationships from the research record, not claims of universal equivalence.
Synonyms and near-synonyms
No synonym established for this entry.
Antonyms and contrasts
No antonym established for this entry.
Related terms
জ্বীন (Bangla): Explicitly distinguished by one participant; therefore not a general synonym. — Comparison with পরী
Across languages
Urdu / classical Hindi (historical lexicon): پری / परी (parī) — fairy; beautiful woman Related Persian-derived headword Shared lexical core; Platts also records possession-related compounds. Historical lexical comparison does not establish identical Bangla/Urdu imagery or a common diagnosis. [SLEXB16]
PARTICIPANTS-R5: জ্বীন এক জিনিস পরী আলাদা জিনিস।
All evidence IDs: E0096; E0071; E0070; E0097; E0386; E0387
Literature notes and references
LN019: Karim’s Kushtia ethnography (1988, p. 290) reports a gendered jinn/pari distinction. That situated historical account is a comparator; it cannot prescribe the identities, appearance or gender understood by the present speakers. [SLITB01]
Points de vue selon différents contextes
Les points de vue sont présentés côte à côte. Une ressemblance ne signifie pas une équivalence. Aucun point de vue ne parle au nom de toute une culture.