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Bengali
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bengali bengalí bengāli bengālī Bengāli bengāļi
English
bn
Alternative forms
en Bangalee Bengalee archaic
en Bangali uncommon
Etymology
Equivalent to en Bengal -i. Compare as বঙালী, bn বাঙালি, hi बंगाली, fa-cls بنگالی bangālī.
Pronunciation
en /bɛŋˈɡɔːli/
en /bɛŋˈɡɑli/ cot-caught
en En-us-Bengali.ogg US
Adjective
-
Of, from or pertaining to Bengal or the Bengalis.
en 2016 February 19 How to Kill a Language Ahmad Ibrahim https://www.thedailystar.net/star-weekend/opinion/how-kill-language-574225 The Daily Star (Bangladesh) The Daily Star 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. https://web.archive.org/web/20250620205105/https://www.thedailystar.net/star-weekend/opinion/how-kill-language-574225 20 June 2025
Derived terms
en Anglo-Bengali Bengali alphabet Bengali script non-Bengali Bengaliness Bengi Benglish
Translations
of or pertaining to Bengal
Arabic: ar بَنْغَالِيّ
Belarusian: be бенга́льскі
Bengali: bn বাঙ্গালী baṅgalī, bn বাঙালি
Burmese: my ဘင်္ဂါလီ
Catalan: ca bengalí
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 孟加拉 Mèngjiālā
Czech: cs bengálský
Danish: da bengalsk
Dutch: nl Bengaals, nl Bengalees
Finnish: fi bengalilainen
French: fr bengali
German: de bengalisch
Greek: el βεγγαλέζικος, el βεγγαλικός
Gujarati: gu બંગાળી
Hindi: hi बंगाली, hi बंगला, hi बँगला
Hungarian: hu bengáli
Irish: ga Beangálach
Italian: it Bengalese
Latvian: lv bengāļu
Malay: ms Benggali
Marathi: mr बंगाली
Mon: mnw ဗၚ်ဂလဳ
Persian: fa بنگالی bangâli
Polish: pl bengalski
Russian: ru бенга́льский
Spanish: es bengalí
Swahili: sw kibengali -a kibengali
Swedish: sv bengalisk
Tajik: tg банголӣ
Tamil: ta வங்காள, ta பெங்காலி
Ukrainian: uk бенга́льський
Urdu: ur بنگالی bangālī
Noun
~
en person from Bengal A person from Bengal or of Bengali descent.
en Bangla
Translations
person from Bengal
Arabic: ar بَنْغَالِيّ m, ar بَنْغَالِيَّة f
Assamese: as বঙাল, as বঙালী
Bengali: bn বাঙ্গালী, bn বাঙালি
Burmese: my ဘင်္ဂါလီ
Catalan: ca bengalí m f
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 孟加拉人 mèngjiālārén
Czech: cs Bengálec m
Danish: da bengaler c
Dutch: nl Bengaal m, nl Bengaalse f, nl Bengalees m, nl Bengalese f
Esperanto: eo bengalo
Finnish: fi bengali
German: de Bengale m, de Bengalin f
Greek: el Βεγγαλέζος m, el Βεγγαλέζα f
Gujarati: gu બંગાળી m
Hindi: hi बंगाली m, hi बंगला m, hi बंगालिन f, hi बंगालन f, hi बँगला m
Hungarian: hu bengáli, hu bengáliai
Irish: ga Beangálach m
Japanese: ja ベンガル人 bengarujin
Kazakh: kk бенгал
Latvian: lv bengālis m, lv bengāle f
Malay: ms orang Benggali
Marathi: mr बंगाली
Persian: fa بنگالی bangâli
Polish: pl Bengalczyk m, pl Bengalka f
Russian: ru бенга́лец m, ru бенга́лка f
Spanish: es bengalí
Swahili: sw Mbengali
Swedish: sv bengal
Tajik: tg банголӣ
Telugu: te బెంగాలీ
Turkish: tr Bengalli, tr Bengaleli
Ottoman Turkish: ota بنكالهلی bengaleli
Urdu: ur بنگالی bangālī
Proper noun
en Q9610 A language spoken in Bangladesh and the states of Assam, Tripura and West Bengal, India.
en Q22082953 en village tehsil/Nancowry dist:suf/Nicobar u/Andaman and Nicobar Islands c/India.
Translations
language Q9610
Amharic: am በንጋልኛ bängaləñña
Arabic: ar اللُّغَة الْبَنْغَالِيَّة f al-luḡa l-banḡāliyya, ar بنغالية الْبَنْغَالِيَّة f
Armenian: hy բենգալերեն, hy բենգալի
Assamese: as বঙালী, as বঙালী ভাষা
Azerbaijani: az benqal dili
Basque: eu bengalera
Belarusian: be бенга́льская мо́ва f, be бенга́льская f
Bengali: bn বাংলা, bn বাংলা ভাষা, bn বাঙ্গালা ভাষা
Bulgarian: bg бенга́лски ези́к m, bg бенга́лски m
Burmese: my ဘင်္ဂါလီဘာသာ, my ဘင်္ဂါလီ
Catalan: ca bengalí m
Cherokee: chr ᏇᏂᎦᎳ
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 孟加拉語 mèngjiālāyǔ
Czech: cs bengálština f
Danish: da bengali
Dhivehi: dv ބެންގާލީ
Dutch: nl Bengaals n, nl Bengalees n, nl Bengali n
Esperanto: eo bengala
Estonian: et bengali keel, et bengali
Finnish: fi bengali
French: fr bengali m
Georgian: ka ბენგალური ენა, ka ბენგალური
German: de Bengali n, de Bengalisch n, de Bengalische Sprache f
Greek: el μπενγκάλι n-p
Greenlandic: kl bengalimiutut
Gujarati: gu બંગાળી f
Hebrew: he בֶּנְגָּלִית f bengalít
Hindi: hi बंगाली f, hi बंगला f, hi बंगाली भाषा f, hi बंगला भाषा f, hi बंगाली ज़ुबान f, hi बंगला ज़ुबान f, hi बँगला f
Hungarian: hu bengáli
Icelandic: is bengalska f
Irish: ga Beangáilis f
Italian: it bengali m
Japanese: ja ベンガル語 Bengaru-go
Kazakh: kk баңлаша
Khmer: km ភាសាបង់ក្លាដែស pʰiesaa bɑngklaadaes
Korean: ko 벵골어
Latvian: lv bengāļu valoda f
Lithuanian: lt bengalų kalba f
Macedonian: mk бенгалски јазик m, mk бенгалски m
Malay: ms bahasa Benggali
Marathi: mr बंगाली
Mongolian: mn бенгал хэл, mn бенгал
Navajo: nv Bangla Dineʼé bizaad
Nepali: ne बंगाली
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb bengali m
Nynorsk: nn bengali m n
Persian:
Dari: prs زَبَانِ بَنْگَالِی, prs بَنْگَالِی
Iranian Persian: fa-ira زَبانِ بَنْگالی, fa-ira بَنْگالی
Classical Persian: fa-cls زَبَانِ بَنْگَالِی, fa-cls بَنْگَالِی
Polish: pl bengali, pl język bengalski m
Portuguese: pt bengali
Rohingya: rhg
Romanian: ro bengaleză f
Russian: ru бенга́льский язы́к m, ru бенга́льский m
Sanskrit: sa बाङ्गला भाषा f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh бѐнга̄лскӣ
Latin: sh bèngālskī
Slovak: sk bengálčina f
Slovene: sl bengalščina f
Spanish: es bengalí m
Swahili: sw Kibengali
Swedish: sv bengali, sv bengaliska
Tajik: tg банголӣ, tg забони банголӣ
Tamil: ta வங்காள மொழி, ta வங்காளம், ta பெங்காலி
Telugu: te బెంగాలీ
Thai: th ภาษาเบ็งกาลี paa-săa beng-gaa-lii
Turkish: tr Bengalce
Ukrainian: uk бенга́льська мо́ва f, uk бенга́льська f
Urdu: ur بنگلہ m baṅglā, ur بنگلہ زبان baṅglā zabān, ur بنگالی زبان baṅgālī zabān, ur بنگالی baṅgālī
Uyghur: ug باڭالـچە, ug باڭال تىلى
Vietnamese: vi tiếng Bengali
Walloon: wa Bengali
Yiddish: yi בענגאַליש
See also
bn
Further reading
1 bn ben
ben
Anagrams
en abegiln Algenib Belgian bealing biangle
en Demonyms Ethnonyms Languages Writing systems
Finnish
Etymology
Adapted .
Pronunciation
Proper noun
fi Bengal region of South Asia
Declension
sg Bengal a
Derived terms
fi bengali bengalilainen bengalin tuli bengalinkettu bengalinkissa bengalintiikeri bengalitikku Länsi-Bengali
Anagrams
fi abegiln Belgian