Bengalee

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English[edit]

Noun[edit]

Bengalee (plural Bengalees)

  1. Archaic form of Bengali.
    • 1856, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 80, page 237:
      Our early popular ideas of the mildness and effeminacy of the Hindoos were derived from the Bengalees, and are by no means characteristic of the general population of India.

Proper noun[edit]

Bengalee

  1. Archaic form of Bengali.

Adjective[edit]

Bengalee (comparative more Bengalee, superlative most Bengalee)

  1. Archaic form of Bengali.
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