English
Etymology
Equivalent to Bengal + -i. Compare Assamese বঙালী (boṅali), Bengali বাঙ্গালী (baṅgali), Hindi बंगाली (baṅgālī), Classical Persian بنگالی (bangālī).
Pronunciation
Adjective
Bengali (not comparable)
- 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
Translations
of or pertaining to Bengal
Noun
Bengali (countable and uncountable, plural Bengalis)
- 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 (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)
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Proper noun
Bengali
- A language spoken in Bangladesh and the states of Assam, Tripura and West Bengal, India.
- 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
- 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
- Roman: 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)
- 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)
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See also
- Wiktionary’s coverage of Bengali terms
Further reading
Anagrams
Finnish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbeŋːɑli/, [ˈbe̞ŋːɑ̝li]
- Rhymes: -eŋːɑli
- Syllabification(key): Ben‧ga‧li
- Hyphenation(key): Ben‧ga‧li
Proper noun
Bengali
- alternative spelling of Bengal (region of South Asia)
Declension
| Inflection of Bengali (Kotus type 6/paperi, no gradation)
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| nominative
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Bengali
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| genitive
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Bengalin
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Bengalia
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Bengaliin
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singular
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plural
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Bengali
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nom.
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Bengali
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Bengalin
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Bengalin
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Bengalia
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Bengalissa
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Bengalista
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Bengaliin
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Bengalilla
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Bengalilta
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Bengalille
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Bengalina
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Bengaliksi
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| abessive
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Bengalitta
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See the possessive forms below.
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| first-person singular possessor
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plural
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Bengalini
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nom.
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Bengalini
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Bengalini
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Bengalini
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Bengaliani
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Bengalissani
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Bengalistani
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Bengaliini
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Bengalillani
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Bengaliltani
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Bengalilleni
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Bengalinani
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Bengalikseni
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Bengalittani
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| second-person singular possessor
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Bengalisi
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nom.
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Bengalisi
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Bengalisi
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Bengalisi
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Bengaliasi
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Bengalissasi
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Bengalistasi
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Bengaliisi
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Bengalillasi
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Bengaliltasi
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Bengalillesi
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Bengalinasi
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Bengaliksesi
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Bengalittasi
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| first-person plural possessor
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Bengalimme
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nom.
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Bengalimme
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Bengalimme
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Bengalimme
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Bengaliamme
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Bengalissamme
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Bengalistamme
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Bengaliimme
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Bengalillamme
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Bengaliltamme
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Bengalillemme
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Bengalinamme
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Bengaliksemme
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Bengalittamme
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| second-person plural possessor
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Bengalinne
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nom.
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Bengalinne
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Bengalinne
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Bengalinne
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Bengalianne
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Bengalissanne
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Bengalistanne
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Bengaliinne
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Bengalillanne
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Bengaliltanne
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Bengalillenne
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Bengalinanne
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Bengaliksenne
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Bengalittanne
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| third-person possessor
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plural
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Bengalinsa
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nom.
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Bengalinsa
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Bengalinsa
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Bengalinsa
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Bengaliaan
Bengaliansa
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Bengalissaan
Bengalissansa
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Bengalistaan
Bengalistansa
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Bengaliinsa
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Bengalillaan
Bengalillansa
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Bengaliltaan
Bengaliltansa
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Bengalilleen
Bengalillensa
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Bengalinaan
Bengalinansa
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Bengalikseen
Bengaliksensa
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Bengalittaan
Bengalittansa
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