নেশাখোর
neshakhor
Provenance: Reviewed field-research record
Word class
বিশেষ্য; বিশেষণ / noun; adjective
Lexical status
Established person-label; related labels remain distinct from a clinical diagnosis.
Recorded forms
নেশাখোর; নেশাখুরের; মাতাল; গাঁজা খোর; মদ খোর; মাতলামি করতেছে; হিরোইঞ্চির; গাঞ্জটটি; হিরোইঞ্চি
Research meaning — English
1. A medicine seller uses the person-label in an account of requests for sleeping tablets and attributed trouble. 2. Cannabis/alcohol person-labels occur in a community-difficulty account; matlami separately names conduct following substance use. Additional transcript evidence: 1. A person label associated with heroin use is applied to the institution’s population, not confirmed as the son’s specific substance history. 2. The cannabis-user label is invoked in reported protest against institutional placement, not self-identification. 3. হিরোইঞ্চি is used negatively to label some incoming people in a complaint about neighbourhood disorder; actual substance use is not independently established.
Research meaning — Bengali
1. ওষুধবিক্রেতা ঘুমের ওষুধ চাওয়া ও ঝামেলার বয়ানে নেশাখোর নাম ব্যবহার করেন। 2. গাঁজা খোর ও মদ খোর স্থানীয় কষ্টের আলোচনায় ব্যক্তিলেবেল; মাতলামি নেশার পরের আচরণ হিসেবে বলা হয়। Additional transcript evidence: 1. বিশ্লেষণ: পুনর্বাসনকেন্দ্রের ধরন বোঝাতে হিরোইঞ্চি শব্দটি ব্যবহৃত; এই শব্দে ছেলের নেশার ধরন নিশ্চিত করা যায় না। 2. গাঞ্জটটি নামটি নিজের পরিচয় হিসেবে অস্বীকার করা হয়েছে। 3. হিরোইঞ্চি শব্দটি আশপাশের কিছু আগত মানুষকে নেতিবাচকভাবে চিহ্নিত করতে ব্যবহৃত; তাদের মাদকসেবন স্বাধীনভাবে নিশ্চিত করা হয়নি।
What this research adds
Substance-person sense retained; behavior is the speaker’s allegation. Shows how the label enters pharmacy encounters. Related referents, not interchangeable diagnoses. Separates person, substance and conduct terminology. Additional transcript evidence: Adds a substance-specific social label with restricted referent. Adds a stigmatizing label and explicit rejection; adjacent betel use does not establish cannabis use. Adds a heroin-associated person label while preserving speaker attribution and avoiding a neighbourhood prevalence claim.
Lien avec la santé mentale
The labels appear in provider encounters, alleged alcohol use and peer-based descriptions. Their co-listing with Pagol or other names does not show that the categories have the same clinical meaning. No psychiatric diagnosis or universal clinical equivalent is established by this expression. The clinical discussion is an analyst comparison, separate from the speaker’s own explanation.
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. A person labelled as using intoxicants; also adjectival. [CRLEX02] 2. Drunk/intoxicated, or figuratively besotted. [CRLEX26]
Established meaning — Bengali
1. মাদকদ্রব্য ব্যবহারকারী বলে চিহ্নিত ব্যক্তি; বিশেষণেও ব্যবহৃত। [CRLEX02] 2. নেশায় মাতোয়ারা বা মদ্যপ; কখনও রূপকভাবে মোহিত। [CRLEX26]
Contexte d'utilisation
Person-labels occur in pharmacy and neighbourhood accounts.
Learning from the accounts
Reported effects
Poor sleep and disruptive conduct are attributed by speakers, not independently verified.
Attributed origins
Substance involvement is alleged; the label does not establish a common cause.
Variation and visualization
Person, state and conduct labels overlap incompletely; selected usage is not population prevalence. Additional transcript evidence: The source editorial gloss is part of the transcript; retain it but do not infer independent verification.
Ce qui reste incertain
Actual substance involvement must be established separately because the person label alone supplies no verified use pattern. নেশাখোর and মাতাল have different possible social and state meanings, so avoid replacing every occurrence with the same addiction diagnosis. No psychiatric diagnosis or universal clinical equivalent is established by this expression. The clinical discussion is an analyst comparison, separate from the speaker’s own explanation.
Commonness and evidence limits
The selected evidence spans three source documents. MS06’s claim that there are many নেশাখোর is perceived commonness from one provider, without a denominator or representative sample. These are selected qualitative occurrences in supplied source files and versions. Repeated files or passages do not add independent testimony. Neither frequency in the population nor identical understanding or private imagery is established by these selections.
Relationships and comparison
These are scoped relationships from the research record, not claims of universal equivalence.
Synonyms and near-synonyms
মাদকদ্রব্যসেবী (Bangla): Dictionary near-synonym; comparatively descriptive. — U01.1: substance-using person [CRLEX02] মাতাল (Bangla): Partial overlap only; not every neshakhor token asserts present drunkenness. — U01.2: intoxicated state/person [CRLEX26]
Antonyms and contrasts
No antonym established for this entry.
Related terms
No separate related-term record supplied.
Across languages
English: substance user — person using a substance Descriptive contextual translation Useful for the substance-person sense. Does not reproduce every judgment carried by নেশাখোর. [CRLEX02]
অংশগ্রহণকারী: তারা ঘুমায় না ঠিক মতো। এসে বলে ঘুমের টেবলেট দেন! তখন ত ঘুমের টেবলেট দেইনা। ঘুমের টেবলেট দিলে ত ঘুমাবে, নেশা করবে। উলটা পালটা করবে, ঝামেলা করে। এরকম বহুত রোগী আছে। নেশাখোর বহুত আছে।
All evidence IDs: E0183; E0184; E0185; E0186; E0509; E0510; E0717; E0968; E0969; E0970; E1027; E1028; E1275
Literature notes and references
LN030: A person-label does not itself establish a substance-use disorder; clinical assessment concerns a pattern and its consequences. [CRLIT_R13]
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.