Bengalee

English Noun en Bengali. en 1856 Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine 80 237 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. en 1869 Alfred Russel Wallace The Malay Archipelago Macmillan and Co. I London 31 The Klings of Western India are a numerous body of Mahometans, and, with many Arabs, are petty merchants and shopkeepers. The grooms and washermen are all Bengalees, and there is a small but highly respectable class of Parsee merchants. Proper noun en Bengali. Adjective en Bengali.