bengali means of, from or pertaining to Bengal or the Bengalis. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 77 out of 100.
bengali is pronounced /bɛŋˈɡɔːli/.
Etymology
Equivalent to Bengal + -i. Compare Assamese বঙালী (boṅali), Bengali বাঙালি (baṅali), Hindi बंगाली (baṅgālī), Classical Persian بنگالی (bangālī).
adj
- Of, from or pertaining to Bengal or the Bengalis.“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 f”
name
- 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.
noun
- A person from Bengal or of Bengali descent.