In Bengali, biodata is written বায়োডাটা. For a marriage it is বিবাহ বায়োডাটা (bibaho biodata) — and it is not the same thing as jibon-brittanto.
In Bengali, "biodata" is বায়োডাটা — a one-page profile of a person's personal, family and education details. For marriage it is called বিবাহ বায়োডাটা (bibaho biodata). The older Bengali term is জীবনবৃত্তান্ত (jibon-brittanto), which literally means "account of a life" and is not interchangeable with a biodata.
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বায়োডাটা is the Bengali spelling of the English word "biodata", and it means what the English word means: a short written account of who someone is. In বাংলা-speaking families it almost always refers to the one-page profile exchanged when a marriage is being arranged — বিবাহ বায়োডাটা.
The part that causes confusion is জীবনবৃত্তান্ত (jibon-brittanto), which literally means "account of a life". People searching for this often find the two words used near each other and assume they are synonyms. They are not, and the difference matters when a family asks you for one of them.
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বায়োডাটা is a direct transliteration, so it carries no separate Bengali etymology — it is the English "biodata" written in বাংলা script. What it refers to is a single page listing a person's personal details, education, occupation, family and contact information.
Where the marriage sense needs to be explicit, Bengali speakers say বিবাহ বায়োডাটা (bibaho biodata).
জীবনবৃত্তান্ত is the standard Bengali word for a CV and is used for both jobs and marriage, so on its own it does not tell you which is meant. The term that specifically signals marriage is পাত্র-পাত্রী (patro-patri, groom-bride) — the category name used by matchmakers and newspaper columns. A ghotok asking for your পাত্র details is asking for the marriage profile.
| Bengali term | Romanised | What it refers to |
|---|---|---|
| বায়োডাটা | biodata | The one-page profile of a person |
| বিবাহ বায়োডাটা | bibaho biodata | That profile, in the marriage sense specifically |
| জীবনবৃত্তান্ত | jibon-brittanto | Literally "account of a life" — see above |
জীবনবৃত্তান্ত is the ordinary word for a job CV in Bengali. Because the same word covers both, Bengali families more often specify পাত্র-পাত্রী when they mean the marriage document.
The two documents overlap only in the name. A marriage biodata leads with family, community and often horoscope details and gives work a line or two. A job CV inverts that entirely and carries no family section at all — putting your father's occupation on a job application reads as odd, and leaving your family off a marriage biodata reads as evasive.
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“My aunt kept asking for the parichay patra and I thought she meant something different from a biodata. Turned out to be the same page.”
“The family asked for the jathagam, not the biodata. Knowing the difference saved a very awkward second phone call.”
In Bengali, biodata is written বায়োডাটা. It means a one-page account of a person — personal details, education, occupation, family and contact information.
বিবাহ বায়োডাটা, romanised as bibaho biodata.
জীবনবৃত্তান্ত is the standard Bengali word for a CV and is used for both jobs and marriage, so on its own it does not tell you which is meant. The term that specifically signals marriage is পাত্র-পাত্রী (patro-patri, groom-bride) — the category name used by matchmakers and newspaper columns. A ghotok asking for your পাত্র details is asking for the marriage profile.
জীবনবৃত্তান্ত is the ordinary word for a job CV in Bengali. Because the same word covers both, Bengali families more often specify পাত্র-পাত্রী when they mean the marriage document.
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