Bengali
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Hindi बंगाली / Urdu بنگالی (baṅgālī).
Pronunciation
Audio (US): (file)
Adjective
Bengali (not comparable)
- Of, from or pertaining to Bengal or the Bengalis.
- 2016 February 19, “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.
Translations
of or pertaining to Bengal
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Noun
Bengali (countable and uncountable, plural Bengalis)
- (countable) A person from Bengal or of Bengali descent.
- (uncountable) A language spoken in Bangladesh and the states of Tripura and West Bengal, India.
Synonyms
Translations
person from Bengal
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language
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See also
Further reading
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Anagrams
Finnish
Proper noun
Bengali
- Alternative spelling of Bengal (region of South Asia)
Declension
Inflection of Bengali (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
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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. |
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