Bengali

See also bengali, and bengalí

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Etymology

From Hindi बंगाली (bangālī).

Pronunciation

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Adjective

Bengali (not comparable)

1. Of, from or pertaining to Bengal

Translations

of or pertaining to Bengal

• Catalan: bengalí (ca)
• Finnish: bengalilainen (fi)
• Hungarian: bengáli (hu)
• Malay: Benggali (ms)

• Marathi: बंगाली (mr) (baṃgālī)
• Spanish: bengalí (es)
• Swahili: -a Bungala (sw)

Noun

Bengali (plural Bengalis)

1. A person from Bengal or of Bengali descent.

Translations

person from Bengal

• Catalan: bengalí (ca) m and f
• Finnish: bengali (fi)
• Hungarian: bengáli (hu), bengáliai (hu)
• Malay: orang Benggali (ms)

• Marathi: बंगाली (mr) (baṃgālī)
• Spanish: bengalí (es)
• Swahili: Mbungala (sw)

Proper noun

Bengali

1. Language spoken in Bangladesh and the states of Tripura and West Bengal, India.

Synonyms

• Bangla

Translations

language

• Arabic: بنغالي (ar) (binghaaliy) m, البنغالية (ar) (al-binghalíyya) f
• Armenian: բենգալերեն (hy) (bengaleren), բենգալի (hy) (bengali)
• Basque: bengalera (eu)
• Bengali: বাংলা (bn) (Bangla), বাংলা ভাষা (bn) (Bangla bhasha)
• Catalan: bengalí (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 孟加拉語 (cmn), 孟加拉语 (cmn) (Mèngjiālāyǔ)

• Czech: bengálština (cs) f
• Estonian: bengali keel
• Finnish: bengali (fi)
• French: bengali (fr) m
• German: Bengali (de) n
• Greenlandic: Bengalimiutut (kl)
• Hebrew: בנגלית (he)
• Hindi: बंगाली (hi) (bangālī) f, बंगला (hi) (baṅglā) f
• Hungarian: bengáli (hu)
• Italian: bengali (it) m
• Japanese: ベンガル語 (ja) (Bengaru-go)
• Khmer: ភាសាបង់ក្លាដែស (km) (pʰiesaa bɑngklaadaes)

• Korean: 벵골어 (ko) (Benggol-eo)
• Malay: bahasa Benggali (ms)
• Marathi: बंगाली (mr) (baṃgālī)
• Navajo: Bangla Dineʼé bizaad
• Nepali: बंगाली (ne)
• Persian: زبان بنگالی (fa)
• Polish: bengali; język bengalski m
• Portuguese: bengali (pt)
• Romanian: bengaleză (ro) f
• Russian: бенгальский (ru) (bengál’skij) m
• Serbo-Croatian: bèngālskī (sh), бѐнга̄лскӣ (sh)
• Spanish: bengalí (es) m
• Swahili: Kibungala (sw)
• Tamil: வங்காள மொழி (ta) (vaṅkāḷ moḻi)
• Thai: ภาษาเบ็งกาลี (th) (paa-săa beng-gaa-lee)
• Urdu: بنگلہ (ur) (baṅglā) f
• Vietnamese: tiếng Bengali (vi)
• Walloon: Bengali

See also

• Wiktionary's coverage of Bengali terms

External links

• ISO 639-1 code bn, ISO 639-3 code ben
• Ethnologue entry for Bengali, bn

Anagrams

• Algenib
• Belgian

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Finnish

Proper noun

Bengali

1. Alternative spelling of Bengal. (region)

Declension

Declension of Bengali (type risti) singular plural nominative Bengali – genitive Bengalin – partitive Bengalia – accusative Bengali Bengalin – inessive Bengalissa – elative Bengalista – illative Bengaliin – adessive Bengalilla – ablative Bengalilta – allative Bengalille – essive Bengalina – translative Bengaliksi – instructive – – abessive Bengalitta – comitative – –

Derived terms

• Länsi-Bengali