• Bengali Word বউ English definition (noun) 1 wife. 2 daughters-in-law. 3 brother’s wife; sister-in-law. 4 a married woman: ঘরের বউ. 5 bride. 6 housewife. 7 someone as bashful as a newly married woman: তার এতো লজ্জা, যেন ঘরের বউটি. বউ-ঝি, বউ-বেটি (noun(s)) daughters and daughters-in-law; women-folk. বউ-মানুষ (noun) 1 family woman. 2 child-wife. কলাবউ (noun) a young banana-plant dressed as a married lady and conceived as a female deity worshipped by Hindus; a wife with a long veil; a awkwardly bashful woman. কুলের বউ (noun) = বউ-মানুষ. বউ-কথা-কও (noun) the Indian nightingale. বউ-কাটকি (noun) a woman given to torturing her daughter-in-law. বউড়ি (noun) a young wife; child-wife. বউদিদি, বউদি (colloquial) (noun) an elder brother’s wife; sister-in-law. বউ-ভাত (noun) the ceremony of a bride’s serving out food for the first time to her husband’s kinsfolk; a marriage feast in honour of the bride. বউমা (noun) son’s wife; daughter-in-law; a younger brother’s wife; sister-in-law. বউ গড়া (noun) a ceremony to welcome the bride to her father-in-law’s house.