Meaning of চাতক | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Jacobin or pied cuckoo (Clamator jacobinus), considered a rainbird in South Asia due to its arrival before the monsoon
2. a desirer of hard-to-achieve or rare things (like how the pied cuckoo is said to desire the relatively rarely coming raindrops).

Examples

“চাতক প্রায় অহর্নিশি চেয়ে আছে কালো শশী।”

The desirer almost day and night desires the black moon [God].

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