Bengali

See also: bengali, bengalí, bengāli, bengālī, Bengāli, and bengāļi

English

Alternative forms

• Bangalee, Bengalee (archaic)
• Bangali (uncommon)

Etymology

Equivalent to Bengal +‎ -i. Compare Assamese বঙালী (boṅali), Bengali বাঙালি (baṅali), Hindi बंगाली (baṅgālī), Classical Persian بنگالی (bangālī).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɛŋˈɡɔːli/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /bɛŋˈɡɑli/

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Adjective

Bengali (not comparable)

1. Of, from or pertaining to Bengal or the Bengalis.
   • 2016 February 19, Ahmad Ibrahim, “How to Kill a Language”, in The Daily Star‎^[1]:

     Ethnologue, the web-based publication, estimates that there are around 41 languages in Bangladesh and all of them are living. However, 8 of them are in danger of extinction. These include Khiang, Murong, Bawm, Pangkhua among others. It is ironic to think that a nation that fought for the right to speak a language, the first recorded instance of this in history, is the same nation that internally follows an agenda of Bengali supremacy.

Derived terms

• Anglo-Bengali
• Bengali alphabet
• Bengali script
• non-Bengali

Translations

of or pertaining to Bengal

• Arabic: بَنْغَالِيّ (banḡāliyy)
• Belarusian: бенга́льскі (bjenhálʹski)
• Bengali: বাঙ্গালী (bn) (baṅgalī), বাঙালি (bn) (baṅali)
• Burmese: ဘင်္ဂါလီ (my) (bhanggali)
• Catalan: bengalí (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 孟加拉 (zh) (Mèngjiālā)

• Czech: bengálský (cs)
• Danish: bengalsk (da)
• Dutch: Bengaals (nl), Bengalees (nl)
• Finnish: bengalilainen (fi)
• French: bengali (fr)
• German: bengalisch (de)
• Greek: βεγγαλέζικος (el) (vengalézikos), βεγγαλικός (el) (vengalikós)
• Gujarati: બંગાળી (gu) (baṅgāḷī)
• Hindi: बंगाली (hi) (baṅgālī), बंगला (baṅglā), बँगला (hi) (baṅglā)
• Hungarian: bengáli (hu)
• Irish: Beangálach
• Italian: Bengalese
• Latvian: bengāļu
• Malay: Benggali
• Marathi: बंगाली (baṅgālī)
• Mon: ဗၚ်ဂလဳ
• Persian: بنگالی (fa) (bangâli)
• Polish: bengalski (pl)
• Russian: бенга́льский (ru) (bengálʹskij)
• Spanish: bengalí (es)
• Swahili: -a kibengali
• Swedish: bengalisk (sv)
• Tajik: банголӣ (tg) (bangoli)
• Tamil: வங்காள (vaṅkāḷa), பெங்காலி (peṅkāli)
• Ukrainian: бенга́льський (uk) (benhálʹsʹkyj)
• Urdu: بنگالی (bangālī)

Noun

Bengali (countable and uncountable, plural Bengalis)

2. A person from Bengal or of Bengali descent.

   Synonym: Bangla

Translations

person from Bengal

• Arabic: بَنْغَالِيّ m (banḡāliyy), بَنْغَالِيَّة f (banḡāliyya)
• Assamese: বঙাল (boṅal), বঙালী (boṅali)
• Bengali: বাঙ্গালী (bn) (baṅgali), বাঙালি (bn) (baṅali)
• Burmese: ဘင်္ဂါလီ (my) (bhanggali)
• Catalan: bengalí (ca) m or f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 孟加拉人 (mèngjiālārén)

• Czech: Bengálec m
• Danish: bengaler (da) c
• Dutch: Bengaal (nl) m, Bengaalse (nl) f, Bengalees (nl) m, Bengalese (nl) f
• Esperanto: bengalo
• Finnish: bengali (fi)
• German: Bengale (de) m, Bengalin f
• Greek: Βεγγαλέζος (el) m (Vengalézos), Βεγγαλέζα (el) f (Vengaléza)
• Gujarati: બંગાળી (gu) m (baṅgāḷī)
• Hindi: बंगाली (hi) m (baṅgālī), बंगला m (baṅglā), बंगालिन f (baṅgālin), बंगालन f (baṅgālan), बँगला (hi) m (baṅglā)
• Hungarian: bengáli (hu), bengáliai
• Irish: Beangálach m
• Japanese: ベンガル人 (ja) (bengarujin)
• Kazakh: бенгал (beñal)
• Latvian: bengālis m, bengāle f
• Malay: orang Benggali
• Marathi: बंगाली (baṅgālī)
• Persian: بنگالی (fa) (bangâli)
• Polish: Bengalczyk (pl) m, Bengalka (pl) f
• Russian: бенга́лец (ru) m (bengálec), бенга́лка (ru) f (bengálka)
• Spanish: bengalí (es)
• Swahili: Mbengali
• Swedish: bengal (sv)
• Tajik: банголӣ (tg) (bangoli)
• Telugu: బెంగాలీ (te) (beṅgālī)
• Urdu: بنگالی (bangālī)

Proper noun

Bengali

1. A language spoken in Bangladesh and the states of Assam, Tripura and West Bengal, India.
2. A village in Nancowry tehsil, Nicobar district, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India.

Translations

language

• Amharic: በንጋልኛ (bängaləñña)
• Arabic: اللُّغَة الْبَنْغَالِيَّة f (al-luḡa l-banḡāliyya), الْبَنْغَالِيَّة f (al-banḡāliyya)
• Armenian: բենգալերեն (hy) (bengaleren), բենգալի (hy) (bengali)
• Assamese: বঙালী (boṅali), বঙালী ভাষা (boṅali bhaxa)
• Azerbaijani: benqal dili
• Basque: bengalera (eu)
• Belarusian: бенга́льская мо́ва f (bjenhálʹskaja móva), бенга́льская f (bjenhálʹskaja)
• Bengali: বাংলা (bn) (baṅla), বাংলা ভাষা (bn) (baṅla bhaśa), বাঙ্গালা ভাষা (baṅgala bhaśa)
• Bulgarian: бенга́лски ези́к m (bengálski ezík), бенга́лски m (bengálski)
• Burmese: ဘင်္ဂါလီဘာသာ (bhanggalibhasa), ဘင်္ဂါလီ (my) (bhanggali)
• Catalan: bengalí (ca) m
• Cherokee: ᏇᏂᎦᎳ (quenigala)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 孟加拉語 / 孟加拉语 (zh) (mèngjiālāyǔ)

• Czech: bengálština (cs) f
• Danish: bengali (da)
• Dhivehi: ބެންގާލީ (ben̊gālī)
• Dutch: Bengaals (nl) n, Bengalees (nl) n, Bengali (nl) n
• Esperanto: bengala (eo)
• Estonian: bengali keel, bengali
• Finnish: bengali (fi)
• French: bengali (fr) m
• Georgian: ბენგალური ენა (bengaluri ena), ბენგალური (bengaluri)
• German: Bengali (de) n, Bengalisch (de) n, Bengalische Sprache f
• Greek: μπενγκάλι (el) n pl (bengkáli)
• Greenlandic: bengalimiutut
• Gujarati: બંગાળી (gu) f (baṅgāḷī)
• Hebrew: בֶּנְגָּלִית f (bengalít)
• Hindi: बंगाली (hi) f (baṅgālī), बंगला f (baṅglā), बंगाली भाषा f (baṅgālī bhāṣā), बंगला भाषा f (baṅglā bhāṣā), बंगाली ज़ुबान f (baṅgālī zubān), बंगला ज़ुबान f (baṅglā zubān), बँगला (hi) f (baṅglā)
• Hungarian: bengáli (hu)
• Icelandic: bengalska (is) f
• Irish: Beangáilis f
• Italian: bengali m
• Japanese: ベンガル語 (ja) (Bengaru-go)
• Kazakh: баңлаша (bañlaşa)
• Khmer: ភាសាបង់ក្លាដែស (pʰiesaa bɑngklaadaes)
• Korean: 벵골어 (benggoreo)
• Latvian: bengāļu valoda f
• Lithuanian: bengalų kalba (lt) f
• Macedonian: бенгалски јазик m (bengalski jazik), бенгалски m (bengalski)
• Malay: bahasa Benggali
• Marathi: बंगाली (baṅgālī)
• Mongolian: бенгал хэл (bengal xel), бенгал (bengal)
• Navajo: Bangla Dineʼé bizaad
• Nepali: बंगाली (baṅgālī)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bengali (no) m

  Nynorsk: bengali m or n

• Persian: زبان بنگالی (zabân-e bangâli), بنگالی (fa) (bangâli)
• Polish: bengali (pl), język bengalski m
• Portuguese: bengali (pt)
• Rohingya: please add this translation if you can
• Romanian: bengaleză (ro) f
• Russian: бенга́льский язы́к m (bengálʹskij jazýk), бенга́льский (ru) m (bengálʹskij)
• Sanskrit: बाङ्गला भाषा f (bāṅgalā bhāṣā)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: бѐнга̄лскӣ

  Latin: bèngālskī (sh)

• Slovak: bengálčina (sk) f
• Slovene: bengalščina f
• Spanish: bengalí (es) m
• Swahili: Kibengali
• Swedish: bengali (sv), bengaliska (sv)
• Tajik: банголӣ (tg) (bangoli), забони банголӣ (zabon-i bangoli)
• Tamil: வங்காள மொழி (vaṅkāḷa moḻi), வங்காளம் (ta) (vaṅkāḷam), பெங்காலி (peṅkāli)
• Telugu: బెంగాలీ (te) (beṅgālī)
• Thai: ภาษาเบ็งกาลี (paa-săa beng-gaa-lii)
• Turkish: Bengalce (tr)
• Ukrainian: бенга́льська мо́ва f (benhálʹsʹka móva), бенга́льська (uk) f (benhálʹsʹka)
• Urdu: بنگلہ m (baṅglā), بنگلہ زبان (baṅglā zabān), بنگالی زبان (baṅgālī zabān), بنگالی (baṅgālī)
• Uyghur: باڭالـچە (ba'ngal-che), باڭال تىلى (ba'ngal tili)
• Vietnamese: tiếng Bengali
• Walloon: Bengali
• Yiddish: בענגאַליש (bengalish)

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Bengali terms

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• Algenib, Belgian, bealing, biangle

Finnish

Etymology

Adapted with an additional -i in the nominative to align with the inflection, since -i is the default stem vowel for foreign words ending in consonants.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbeŋːɑli/, [ˈbe̞ŋːɑ̝li]
• Rhymes: -eŋːɑli
• Syllabification^(key): Ben‧ga‧li
• Hyphenation^(key): Ben‧ga‧li

Proper noun

Bengali

1. alternative spelling of Bengal (region of South Asia)

Declension

Inflection of Bengali (Kotus type 6/paperi, no gradation)
nominative		Bengali	—
genitive		Bengalin	—
partitive		Bengalia	—
illative		Bengaliin	—
		singular	plural
nominative		Bengali	—
accusative	nom.	Bengali	—
	gen.	Bengalin
genitive		Bengalin	—
partitive		Bengalia	—
inessive		Bengalissa	—
elative		Bengalista	—
illative		Bengaliin	—
adessive		Bengalilla	—
ablative		Bengalilta	—
allative		Bengalille	—
essive		Bengalina	—
translative		Bengaliksi	—
abessive		Bengalitta	—
instructive		—	—
comitative		See the possessive forms below.

Possessive forms of Bengali (Kotus type 6/paperi, no gradation)

first-person singular possessor singular plural nominative Bengalini — accusative nom. Bengalini — gen. Bengalini genitive Bengalini — partitive Bengaliani — inessive Bengalissani — elative Bengalistani — illative Bengaliini — adessive Bengalillani — ablative Bengaliltani — allative Bengalilleni — essive Bengalinani — translative Bengalikseni — abessive Bengalittani — instructive — — comitative — — second-person singular possessor singular plural nominative Bengalisi — accusative nom. Bengalisi — gen. Bengalisi genitive Bengalisi — partitive Bengaliasi — inessive Bengalissasi — elative Bengalistasi — illative Bengaliisi — adessive Bengalillasi — ablative Bengaliltasi — allative Bengalillesi — essive Bengalinasi — translative Bengaliksesi — abessive Bengalittasi — instructive — — comitative — — first-person plural possessor singular plural nominative Bengalimme — accusative nom. Bengalimme — gen. Bengalimme genitive Bengalimme — partitive Bengaliamme — inessive Bengalissamme — elative Bengalistamme — illative Bengaliimme — adessive Bengalillamme — ablative Bengaliltamme — allative Bengalillemme — essive Bengalinamme — translative Bengaliksemme — abessive Bengalittamme — instructive — — comitative — — second-person plural possessor singular plural nominative Bengalinne — accusative nom. Bengalinne — gen. Bengalinne genitive Bengalinne — partitive Bengalianne — inessive Bengalissanne — elative Bengalistanne — illative Bengaliinne — adessive Bengalillanne — ablative Bengaliltanne — allative Bengalillenne — essive Bengalinanne — translative Bengaliksenne — abessive Bengalittanne — instructive — — comitative — — third-person possessor singular plural nominative Bengalinsa — accusative nom. Bengalinsa — gen. Bengalinsa genitive Bengalinsa — partitive Bengaliaan Bengaliansa — inessive Bengalissaan Bengalissansa — elative Bengalistaan Bengalistansa — illative Bengaliinsa — adessive Bengalillaan Bengalillansa — ablative Bengaliltaan Bengaliltansa — allative Bengalilleen Bengalillensa — essive Bengalinaan Bengalinansa — translative Bengalikseen Bengaliksensa — abessive Bengalittaan Bengalittansa — instructive — — comitative — —

Derived terms

• bengali
• bengalilainen
• bengalin tuli
• bengalinkettu
• bengalinkissa
• bengalintiikeri
• bengalitikku
• Länsi-Bengali

Anagrams

• Belgian