Bengali

Bengali

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

English

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

From Classical Persian بنگالی‎ (bangālī). Equivalent to Bengal +‎ -i.

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:

     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

Arabic: بَنْغَالِيّ‎ (banḡāliyy), بَنْجَالِيّ‎ (banjāliyy) 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) 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) Russian: бенга́льский (ru) (bengálʹskij) Spanish: bengalí (es) Swahili: -a kibengali Swedish: bengalisk (sv) Tajik: банголӣ (tg) (bangolī)

Noun

Bengali (countable and uncountable, plural Bengalis)

1. (countable) A person from Bengal or of Bengali descent.
2. (uncountable) A language spoken in Bangladesh and the states of Assam, Tripura and West Bengal, India.
3. (uncountable) A village in Nancowry, Nicobar district, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India.

Synonyms

• Bangla

Translations

person from Bengal

Arabic: بَنْغَالِيّ‎ m (banḡāliyy), بَنْجَالِيّ‎ (banjāliyy) Assamese: বঙাল (boṅal), বঙালী (boṅali) Bengali: বাঙ্গালী (bn) (baṅgalī), 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 m, Bengalin f Greek: Βεγγαλέζος (el) m (Vengalézos), Βεγγαλέζα (el) f (Vengaléza) 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 (bengarujin) Kazakh: бенгал (bengal) 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) (bangolī) Telugu: బెంగాలీ (te) (beṅgālī)

language

Amharic: በንጋልኛ (bängaləñña) Arabic: بَنْغَالِيّ‎ m (banḡāliyy), اَلْبَنْغَالِيَّة‎ f (al-banḡāliyya), بَنْجَالِيّ‎ (banjāliyy) 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 bhaṣa), বাঙ্গালা ভাষা (baṅgala bhaṣa) Bulgarian: бенга́лски ези́к m (bengálski ezík), бенга́лски m (bengálski) Burmese: ဘင်္ဂါလီဘာသာ (bhanggalibhasa), ဘင်္ဂါလီ (my) (bhanggali) Catalan: bengalí (ca) m 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 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 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) 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 Roman: bèngālskī (sh) Slovak: bengálčina (sk) f Slovene: bengalščina f Spanish: bengalí (es) m Swahili: Kibengali Swedish: bengali (sv), bengaliska (sv) Tajik: банголӣ (tg) (bangolī), забони банголӣ (zaboni bangolī) Tamil: வங்காள மொழி (vaṅkāḷa moḻi) Telugu: బెంగాలీ (te) (beṅgālī) Thai: ภาษาเบ็งกาลี (paa-săa beng-gaa-lii) Turkish: bengalce 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

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Finnish

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

Bengali

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

Declension

Inflection of Bengali (Kotus type 5/risti, 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	—
instructive		—	—
abessive		Bengalitta	—
comitative		—	—

Possessive forms of Bengali (type risti)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	Bengalini	Bengalimme
2nd person	Bengalisi	Bengalinne
3rd person	Bengalinsa

Derived terms

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

Anagrams

• Belgian