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Bengali Health Vocabulary: Body Parts, Symptoms and Seeing a Doctor

Essential Bengali words for the body, common symptoms and medical visits, with phrases useful for travellers, families and caregivers.

Being able to describe how you feel matters most when you're unwell. This list covers the words you're most likely to need.

Body parts

  • মাথা (matha) — head
  • চোখ (chokh) — eye
  • নাক (nak) — nose
  • কান (kan) — ear
  • মুখ (mukh) — face or mouth
  • দাঁত (dat) — tooth
  • গলা (gola) — throat or neck
  • হাত (hat) — hand or arm
  • পা (pa) — leg or foot
  • পেট (pet) — stomach
  • পিঠ (pith) — back
  • বুক (buk) — chest
  • হাঁটু (hatu) — knee

Symptoms

  • জ্বর (jor) — fever
  • ব্যথা (byatha) — pain
  • মাথাব্যথা (mathabyatha) — headache
  • কাশি (kashi) — cough
  • সর্দি (shordi) — cold
  • বমি (bomi) — vomiting
  • পেটব্যথা (petbyatha) — stomach ache
  • মাথা ঘোরা (matha ghora) — dizziness
  • এলার্জি (elarji) — allergy

People and places

  • ডাক্তার (daktar) — doctor
  • নার্স (nars) — nurse
  • হাসপাতাল (haspatal) — hospital
  • ওষুধ (oshudh) — medicine
  • ওষুধের দোকান (oshudher dokan) — pharmacy
  • জরুরি বিভাগ (joruri bibhag) — emergency department

Useful sentences

  • আমি অসুস্থ — ami oshustho — I am unwell.
  • আমার মাথা ব্যথা করছে — amar matha byatha korchhe — I have a headache.
  • আমার জ্বর হয়েছে — amar jor hoyechhe — I have a fever.
  • আমার পেটে ব্যথা — amar pete byatha — I have a stomach ache.
  • আমি এই ওষুধে এলার্জি — ami ei oshudhe elarji — I'm allergic to this medicine.
  • ডাক্তার ডাকুন — daktar dakun — Please call a doctor.

Describing pain

Use ব্যথা করছে (byatha korchhe, is hurting) after the body part: হাত ব্যথা করছে (my hand hurts). Add ভীষণ (bhishon, severe) or একটু (ektu, slightly) for intensity.

At the pharmacy

  • এটা কীসের ওষুধ? — eta kiser oshudh? — What is this medicine for?
  • দিনে কতবার খাব? — dine kotobar khabo? — How many times a day should I take it?
  • খাবারের আগে না পরে? — khabarer age na pore? — Before or after food?

Traditional remedies

Home remedies such as adding turmeric to warm milk, or ginger and honey for coughs, are commonly recommended in many families. They are cultural traditions and not a substitute for professional care.

Emergency

In an emergency, call the local emergency number for your country, which may be different from those at home. Keep a list of allergies and medicines in both English and Bengali.

Practice

  1. Learn body parts first, then add symptom words.
  2. Practise describing symptoms aloud.
  3. Prepare a written list for any trip.
  4. Look up any medical word before you travel.

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