Bangladesh

See also: Bangla Desh

English

Alternative forms

• Bangla Desh (dated)

Etymology

From Bengali বাংলাদেশ (baṅladeś), from বাংলা (baṅla, “Bengali”) + দেশ (deś, “country”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌbæŋ.ɡlə.ˈdɛʃ/, /ˌbɑːŋ.ɡlə.ˈdɛʃ/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ɛʃ

Proper noun

Bangladesh

2. A country in South Asia. Official name: People's Republic of Bangladesh.

Derived terms

• Bangladeshi

Translations

country

• Afrikaans: Bangladesj
• Albanian: Bangladeshi
• Amharic: ባንግላዴሽ (bangəladeš)
• Arabic: بَنْغِلَادِيش‎ f (banḡladēš)
• Armenian: Բանգլադեշ (hy) (Bangladeš)
• Assamese: বাংলাদেশ (baṅladex)
• Asturian: Bangladesh (ast)
• Azerbaijani: Banqladeş (az)
• Bashkir: Бангладеш (Bangladeš)
• Belarusian: Бангладэ́ш f (Banhladéš)
• Bengali: বাংলাদেশ (bn) (baṅladeś)
• Bishnupriya Manipuri: বাংলাদেশ
• Brahui: Bangládeş
• Breton: Bangladesh
• Bulgarian: Бангладе́ш (bg) m (Bangladéš), Ба́нгладеш (bg) m (Bángladeš)
• Burmese: ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ် (bhangga.la:de.hr)
• Catalan: Bangladesh (ca)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 孟加拉 (maang⁶ gaa¹ laai¹), 孟加拉國, 孟加拉国 (maang⁶ gaa¹ laai¹ gwok³)

  Mandarin: 孟加拉國 (zh), 孟加拉国 (zh) (Mèngjiālāguó), 孟加拉 (zh) (Mèngjiālā)

• Crimean Tatar: Bangladeş
• Czech: Bangladéš (cs) m
• Danish: Bangladesh
• Dhivehi: ބަންގާޅު‎ (ban̊gāḷu)
• Dutch: Bangladesh (nl)
• Dzongkha: བངྒ་ལ་དེཤ (bngga la desh)
• Esperanto: Bangladeŝo (eo)
• Estonian: Bangladesh (et)
• Faroese: Bangladessj n, Bangladesj n
• Finnish: Bangladesh (fi)
• French: Bangladesh (fr) m
• Galician: Bangladesh (gl)
• Georgian: ბანგლადეში (ka) (bangladeši)
• German: Bangladesch (de) n, Bangladesh (de) n
• Greek: Μπαγκλαντές (el) n (Bagklantés)
• Gujarati: બાંગ્લાદેશ (bā̃glādeś)
• Hausa: Bangladesh, Bangaladash
• Hawaiian: Banagaladesa
• Hebrew: בַּנְגְּלָדֶשׁ‎ m (bangladesh)
• Hindi: बांग्लादेश (hi) m (bāṅglādeś), बांगलादेश (hi) m (bāṅglādeś), बंगलादेश (hi) m (baṅglādeś), बाङ्ग्लादेश (hi) m (bāṅglādeś), (formal: बांग्लादेश गणतन्त्र m (bāṅglādeś gaṇtantra), गणतन्त्र बांग्लादेश m (gaṇtantra bāṅglādeś), गणप्रजातन्त्र बांग्लादेश m (gaṇaprajātantra bāṅglādeś), गणप्रजातन्त्री बांग्लादेश m (gaṇaprajātantrī bāṅglādeś)), पूर्वी पाकिस्तान m (pūrvī pākistān) (historical)
• Hungarian: Banglades (hu)
• Icelandic: Bangladess (is)
• Indonesian: Bangladesh (id)
• Interlingua: Bangladesh
• Irish: An Bhanglaidéis f
• Italian: Bangladesh (it) m
• Japanese: バングラデシュ (ja) (Banguradeshu)
• Kalenjin: Bangladesh, Bangladesh
• Kamba: Bangladeshi
• Kannada: ಬಾಂಗ್ಲಾದೇಶ (kn) (bāṅglādēśa)
• Kashmiri: बंगलादेश (baṃgalādēś)
• Kazakh: Бангладеш (Bangladeş)
• Khmer: បង់ក្លាដែស (bɑngklaadaeh)
• Kikuyu: Bangladesh
• Korean: 방글라데시 (ko) (Banggeulladesi)
• Kyrgyz: Баңгладеш (Bañgladeş)

• Lao: ບັງກະລາເທດ (lo) (bang ka lā thēt)
• Latvian: Bangladeša f
• Lithuanian: Bangladešas (lt) m
• Luhya: Ebangladesh
• Luo: Bangladesh
• Macedonian: Бангладеш (mk) m (Bangladeš)
• Malay: Bangladesh
• Malayalam: ബംഗ്ലാദേശ് (baṅglādēśŭ)
• Maltese: il-Bangladexx
• Maori: Pākaratēhi
• Marathi: बांगलादेश (bāṅglādeś)
• Mongolian: Бангладеш (mn) (Bangladesh)
• Navajo: Bangla bikéyah
• Nepali: बंगलादेश (baṅgalādeś)
• Norman: Bangladesh m
• Norwegian: Bangladesh (no)
• Oriya: ବାଁଲାଦେଶ (bam̐ladeśô)
• Oromo: Baangilaadish
• Pashto: بنګلدېش‎ m (bangladéš), بنګله دېش‎ m (bangla déš)
• Persian: بنگلادش‎ (bangelâdeš)
• Polish: Bangladesz (pl) m inan
• Portuguese: Bangladeche (pt), Bangladesh (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਬੰਗਲਾਦੇਸ਼ (baṅglādēś)
• Quechua: Banladish
• Rohingya: please add this translation if you can
• Romanian: Bangladesh (ro) n
• Russian: Бангладе́ш (ru) f (Bangladɛ́š)
• Rusyn: Банґладеш (Bangladeš)
• Sanskrit: बाङ्गलादेश (bāṅgalādeśa)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Бангладеш m

  Roman: Bangladeš (sh) m

• Sindhi: بنگلاديش‎
• Sinhalese: බංගලාදේශය (baṁgalādēśaya)
• Slovak: Bangladéš (sk) m
• Slovene: Bangladeš (sl) m
• Spanish: Bangladés (es) m
• Swahili: Bangladesh (sw)
• Swedish: Bangladesh (sv)
• Tagalog: Bangglades
• Tajik: Бангладеш (tg) (Bangladeš)
• Tamil: வங்காளதேசம் (vaṅkāḷatēcam)
• Tatar: Бангладеш (Bangladeş)
• Telugu: బంగ్లాదేశ్ (te) (baṅglādēś)
• Thai: บังกลาเทศ (th) (bang-glaa-têet)
• Tibetan: བྷང་ལ་རྡེ་ཤུ (bhang la rde shu)
• Tundra Nenets: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: Bangladeş (tr)
• Turkmen: Bangladeş
• Ukrainian: Бангладе́ш (uk) f (Banhladéš), Банґладе́ш f (Bangladéš)
• Urdu: بنگلہ دیش‎ (ur) m (baṅglā deś)
• Uyghur: بېنگلا‎ (bëngla), بانگلادېش‎ (bangladësh)
• Uzbek: Bangladesh (uz)
• Vietnamese: Băng-la-đét
• Yiddish: באַנגלאַדעש‎ (bangladesh)
• Yoruba: Bángáládésì
• Zhuang: Munggyahlahgoz

See also

• Dhaka
• Appendix:Countries of the world
• (countries of Asia) country of Asia; Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, China, Cyprus, Georgia, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Malaysia, Maldives, Mongolia, Nepal, North Korea, Oman, Pakistan, Philippines, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Syria, Tajikistan, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Turkey, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Yemen

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Asturian

Proper noun

Bangladesh m

1. Bangladesh (a country in Asia)

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Breton

Proper noun

Bangladesh

1. Bangladesh (a country in Asia)

Inflection

  Mutation of Bangladesh  

Breton consonant mutation
	unmutated	soft	aspirate	hard
singular	Bangladesh	Vangladesh	unchanged	Pangladesh
plural	B	V	unchanged	P

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Danish

Proper noun

Bangladesh

1. Bangladesh (a country in Asia)

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Dutch

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌbɑŋ.(ɡ)laːˈdɛʃ/

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• Hyphenation: Bangladesh

Proper noun

Bangladesh n

1. Bangladesh (a country in Asia)

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Estonian

Proper noun

Bangladesh

1. Bangladesh (a country in Asia)

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Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɑŋlɑdeʃ/, [ˈbɑŋlɑde̞ʃ]

Proper noun

Bangladesh

1. Bangladesh (a country in Asia)

Declension

Inflection of Bangladesh (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative		Bangladesh	—
genitive		Bangladeshin	—
partitive		Bangladeshia	—
illative		Bangladeshiin	—
		singular	plural
nominative		Bangladesh	—
accusative	nom.	Bangladesh	—
	gen.	Bangladeshin
genitive		Bangladeshin	—
partitive		Bangladeshia	—
inessive		Bangladeshissa	—
elative		Bangladeshista	—
illative		Bangladeshiin	—
adessive		Bangladeshilla	—
ablative		Bangladeshilta	—
allative		Bangladeshille	—
essive		Bangladeshina	—
translative		Bangladeshiksi	—
instructive		—	—
abessive		Bangladeshitta	—
comitative		—	—

Possessive forms of Bangladesh (type risti)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	Bangladeshini	Bangladeshimme
2nd person	Bangladeshisi	Bangladeshinne
3rd person	Bangladeshinsa

Synonyms

• Bangladeshin kansantasavalta (People's Republic of Bangladesh - the official name of the country)
• (historical) Itä-Pakistan (East Pakistan)

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɑ̃.ɡla.dɛʃ/

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Proper noun

Bangladesh m

1. Bangladesh (a country in Asia)

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German

Proper noun

Bangladesh n (genitive Bangladeshs)

1. Nonstandard spelling of Bangladesch.

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Interlingua

Proper noun

Bangladesh

1. Bangladesh (a country in Asia)

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Italian

Proper noun

Bangladesh m

1. Bangladesh (a country in Asia)

See also

• bengalese
• bengali

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Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Bangladesh

1. Bangladesh (a country in Asia)

Related terms

• bangladesher
• bangladeshisk

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Bangladesh

1. Bangladesh (a country in Asia)

Related terms

• bangladeshar
• bangladeshisk

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Portuguese

Alternative forms

• Bangladeche
• Bangladexe

Proper noun

Bangladesh m

1. Bangladesh (a country in southeast Asia)

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Spanish

Alternative forms

• Bangladés

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /banɡlaˈdeʃ/, [bãŋ.ɡlaˈð̞eʃ]

Proper noun

Bangladesh m

1. Bangladesh (a country in Asia)

Related terms

• bangladesí

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Swahili

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya)

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Proper noun

Bangladesh

1. Bangladesh (a country in Asia)

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Swedish

Etymology

From Bengali বাংলাদেশ (baṅladeś), from বাংলা (baṅla, “Bengali”) + দেশ (deś, “country”).

Proper noun

Bangladesh n (genitive Bangladeshs)

1. Bangladesh (a country in Asia)

Related terms

• bangladeshisk (“Bangladeshi”, adjective)
• bangladeshier c (“Bangladeshi male”)
• bangladeshiska c (“Bangladeshi female”)