Standard Lemma guide

Bengali

adj · name · noun · 8 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • /bɛŋˈɡɔːli/
  • cot-caught-merger: /bɛŋˈɡɑli/
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1

adj

Meaning 1

Of, from or pertaining to Bengal or the Bengalis.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: not-comparable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

name

Meaning 2

A language spoken in Bangladesh and the states of Assam, Tripura and West Bengal, India.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

name

Meaning 3

A village in Nancowry tehsil, Nicobar district, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

A person from Bengal or of Bengali descent.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: Bangla

Antonyms: none provided

5

adjective

Meaning 5

of or relating to or characteristic of Bengal or its people

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • Bengali hills

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

noun

Meaning 6

a Magadhan language spoken by the Bengali people; the official language of Bangladesh and Bengal

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: Bangla

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: Magadhan

7

noun

Meaning 7

an ethnic group speaking Bengali and living in Bangladesh and eastern India

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: ethnic group, ethnos

8

noun

Meaning 8

(Hinduism) a member of a people living in Bangladesh and West Bengal (mainly Hindus)

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: Asian, Asiatic

History

Etymology

Equivalent to Bengal + -i. Compare Assamese বঙালী (boṅali), Bengali বাঙালি (baṅali), Hindi बंगाली (baṅgālī), Classical Persian بنگالی (bangālī).

Across languages

Translations

196 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: بَنْغَالِيّ (banḡāliyy) — of or pertaining to Bengal
  • Belarusian: бенга́льскі (bjenhálʹski) — of or pertaining to Bengal
  • Bengali: বাঙ্গালী (baṅgalī) — of or pertaining to Bengal
  • Bengali: বাঙালি (baṅali) — of or pertaining to Bengal
  • Burmese: ဘင်္ဂါလီ (bhanggali) — of or pertaining to Bengal
  • Catalan: bengalí — of or pertaining to Bengal
  • Chinese Mandarin: 孟加拉 (Mèngjiālā) — of or pertaining to Bengal
  • Czech: bengálský — of or pertaining to Bengal
  • Danish: bengalsk — of or pertaining to Bengal
  • Dutch: Bengaals — of or pertaining to Bengal
  • Dutch: Bengalees — of or pertaining to Bengal
  • Finnish: bengalilainen — of or pertaining to Bengal
  • French: bengali — of or pertaining to Bengal
  • German: bengalisch — of or pertaining to Bengal
  • Greek: βεγγαλέζικος (vengalézikos) — of or pertaining to Bengal
  • Greek: βεγγαλικός (vengalikós) — of or pertaining to Bengal
  • Gujarati: બંગાળી (baṅgāḷī) — of or pertaining to Bengal
  • Hindi: बंगाली (baṅgālī) — of or pertaining to Bengal
  • Hindi: बंगला (baṅglā) — of or pertaining to Bengal
  • Hindi: बँगला (baṅglā) — of or pertaining to Bengal
  • Hungarian: bengáli — of or pertaining to Bengal
  • Irish: Beangálach — of or pertaining to Bengal
  • Italian: Bengalese — of or pertaining to Bengal
  • Latvian: bengāļu — of or pertaining to Bengal
  • Malay: Benggali — of or pertaining to Bengal
  • Marathi: बंगाली (baṅgālī) — of or pertaining to Bengal
  • Mon: ဗၚ်ဂလဳ — of or pertaining to Bengal
  • Persian: بنگالی (bangâli) — of or pertaining to Bengal
  • Polish: bengalski — of or pertaining to Bengal
  • Russian: бенга́льский (bengálʹskij) — of or pertaining to Bengal
  • Spanish: bengalí — of or pertaining to Bengal
  • Swahili: -a kibengali — of or pertaining to Bengal
  • Swedish: bengalisk — of or pertaining to Bengal
  • Tajik: банголӣ (bangoli) — of or pertaining to Bengal
  • Tamil: வங்காள (vaṅkāḷa) — of or pertaining to Bengal
  • Tamil: பெங்காலி (peṅkāli) — of or pertaining to Bengal
  • Ukrainian: бенга́льський (benhálʹsʹkyj) — of or pertaining to Bengal
  • Urdu: بنگالی (bangālī) — of or pertaining to Bengal
  • Amharic: በንጋልኛ (bängaləñña) — language
  • Arabic: اللُّغَة الْبَنْغَالِيَّة (al-luḡa l-banḡāliyya) — language
  • Arabic: الْبَنْغَالِيَّة (al-banḡāliyya) — language
  • Armenian: բենգալերեն (bengaleren) — language
  • Armenian: բենգալի (bengali) — language
  • Assamese: বঙালী (boṅali) — language
  • Assamese: বঙালী ভাষা (boṅali bhaxa) — language
  • Azerbaijani: benqal dili — language
  • Basque: bengalera — language
  • Belarusian: бенга́льская мо́ва (bjenhálʹskaja móva) — language
  • Belarusian: бенга́льская (bjenhálʹskaja) — language
  • Bengali: বাংলা (baṅla) — language
  • Bengali: বাংলা ভাষা (baṅla bhaśa) — language
  • Bengali: বাঙ্গালা ভাষা (baṅgala bhaśa) — language
  • Bulgarian: бенга́лски ези́к (bengálski ezík) — language
  • Bulgarian: бенга́лски (bengálski) — language
  • Burmese: ဘင်္ဂါလီဘာသာ (bhanggalibhasa) — language
  • Burmese: ဘင်္ဂါလီ (bhanggali) — language
  • Catalan: bengalí — language
  • Cherokee: ᏇᏂᎦᎳ (quenigala) — language
  • Chinese Mandarin: 孟加拉語 /孟加拉语 (mèngjiālāyǔ) — language
  • Czech: bengálština — language
  • Danish: bengali — language
  • Dhivehi: ބެންގާލީ (ben̊gālī) — language
  • Dutch: Bengaals — language
  • Dutch: Bengalees — language
  • Dutch: Bengali — language
  • Esperanto: bengala — language
  • Estonian: bengali keel — language
  • Estonian: bengali — language
  • Finnish: bengali — language
  • French: bengali — language
  • Georgian: ბენგალური ენა (bengaluri ena) — language
  • Georgian: ბენგალური (bengaluri) — language
  • German: Bengali — language
  • German: Bengalisch — language
  • German: Bengalische Sprache — language
  • Greek: μπενγκάλι (bengkáli) — language
  • Greenlandic: bengalimiutut — language
  • Gujarati: બંગાળી (baṅgāḷī) — language
  • Hebrew: בֶּנְגָּלִית (bengalít) — language
  • Hindi: बंगाली (baṅgālī) — language
  • Hindi: बंगला (baṅglā) — language
  • Hindi: बंगाली भाषा (baṅgālī bhāṣā) — language
  • Hindi: बंगला भाषा (baṅglā bhāṣā) — language
  • Hindi: बंगाली ज़ुबान (baṅgālī zubān) — language
  • Hindi: बंगला ज़ुबान (baṅglā zubān) — language
  • Hindi: बँगला (baṅglā) — language
  • Hungarian: bengáli — language
  • Icelandic: bengalska — language
  • Irish: Beangáilis — language
  • Italian: bengali — language
  • Japanese: ベンガル語 (Bengaru-go) — language
  • Kazakh: баңлаша (bañlaşa) — language
  • Khmer: ភាសាបង់ក្លាដែស (phiesaa bɑngklaadaes) — language
  • Korean: 벵골어 (benggoreo) — language
  • Latvian: bengāļu valoda — language
  • Lithuanian: bengalų kalba — language
  • Macedonian: бенгалски јазик (bengalski jazik) — language
  • Macedonian: бенгалски (bengalski) — language
  • Malay: bahasa Benggali — language
  • Marathi: बंगाली (baṅgālī) — language
  • Mongolian: бенгал хэл (bengal xel) — language
  • Mongolian: бенгал (bengal) — language
  • Navajo: Bangla Dineʼé bizaad — language
  • Nepali: बंगाली (baṅgālī) — language
  • Norwegian Bokmål: bengali — language
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: bengali — language
  • Dari: زَبَانِ بَنْگَالِی (zabān-i bangālī) — language
  • Dari: بَنْگَالِی (bangālī) — language
  • Iranian Persian: زَبانِ بَنْگالی (zabân-e bangâli) — language
  • Iranian Persian: بَنْگالی (bangâli) — language
  • Persian: زَبَانِ بَنْگَالِی (zabān-i bangālī) — language
  • Persian: بَنْگَالِی (bangālī) — language
  • Polish: bengali — language
  • Polish: język bengalski — language
  • Portuguese: bengali — language
  • Romanian: bengaleză — language
  • Russian: бенга́льский язы́к (bengálʹskij jazýk) — language
  • Russian: бенга́льский (bengálʹskij) — language
  • Sanskrit: बाङ्गला भाषा (bāṅgalā bhāṣā) — language
  • Serbo-Croatian: бѐнга̄лскӣ — language
  • Serbo-Croatian: bèngālskī — language
  • Slovak: bengálčina — language
  • Slovene: bengalščina — language
  • Spanish: bengalí — language
  • Swahili: Kibengali — language
  • Swedish: bengali — language
  • Swedish: bengaliska — language
  • Tajik: банголӣ (bangoli) — language
  • Tajik: забони банголӣ (zabon-i bangoli) — language
  • Tamil: வங்காள மொழி (vaṅkāḷa moḻi) — language
  • Tamil: வங்காளம் (vaṅkāḷam) — language
  • Tamil: பெங்காலி (peṅkāli) — language
  • Telugu: బెంగాలీ (beṅgālī) — language
  • Thai: ภาษาเบ็งกาลี (paa-săa beng-gaa-lii) — language
  • Turkish: Bengalce — language
  • Ukrainian: бенга́льська мо́ва (benhálʹsʹka móva) — language
  • Ukrainian: бенга́льська (benhálʹsʹka) — language
  • Urdu: بنگلہ (baṅglā) — language
  • Urdu: بنگلہ زبان (baṅglā zabān) — language
  • Urdu: بنگالی زبان (baṅgālī zabān) — language
  • Urdu: بنگالی (baṅgālī) — language
  • Uyghur: باڭالـچە (ba'ngal-che) — language
  • Uyghur: باڭال تىلى (ba'ngal tili) — language
  • Vietnamese: tiếng Bengali — language
  • Walloon: Bengali — language
  • Yiddish: בענגאַליש (bengalish) — language
  • Arabic: بَنْغَالِيّ (banḡāliyy) — person from Bengal
  • Arabic: بَنْغَالِيَّة (banḡāliyya) — person from Bengal
  • Assamese: বঙাল (boṅal) — person from Bengal
  • Assamese: বঙালী (boṅali) — person from Bengal
  • Bengali: বাঙ্গালী (baṅgali) — person from Bengal
  • Bengali: বাঙালি (baṅali) — person from Bengal
  • Burmese: ဘင်္ဂါလီ (bhanggali) — person from Bengal
  • Catalan: bengalí — person from Bengal
  • Chinese Mandarin: 孟加拉人 (mèngjiālārén) — person from Bengal
  • Czech: Bengálec — person from Bengal
  • Danish: bengaler — person from Bengal
  • Dutch: Bengaal — person from Bengal
  • Dutch: Bengaalse — person from Bengal
  • Dutch: Bengalees — person from Bengal
  • Dutch: Bengalese — person from Bengal
  • Esperanto: bengalo — person from Bengal
  • Finnish: bengali — person from Bengal
  • German: Bengale — person from Bengal
  • German: Bengalin — person from Bengal
  • Greek: Βεγγαλέζος (Vengalézos) — person from Bengal
  • Greek: Βεγγαλέζα (Vengaléza) — person from Bengal
  • Gujarati: બંગાળી (baṅgāḷī) — person from Bengal
  • Hindi: बंगाली (baṅgālī) — person from Bengal
  • Hindi: बंगला (baṅglā) — person from Bengal
  • Hindi: बंगालिन (baṅgālin) — person from Bengal
  • Hindi: बंगालन (baṅgālan) — person from Bengal
  • Hindi: बँगला (baṅglā) — person from Bengal
  • Hungarian: bengáli — person from Bengal
  • Hungarian: bengáliai — person from Bengal
  • Irish: Beangálach — person from Bengal
  • Japanese: ベンガル人 (bengarujin) — person from Bengal
  • Kazakh: бенгал (beñal) — person from Bengal
  • Latvian: bengālis — person from Bengal
  • Latvian: bengāle — person from Bengal
  • Malay: orang Benggali — person from Bengal
  • Marathi: बंगाली (baṅgālī) — person from Bengal
  • Persian: بنگالی (bangâli) — person from Bengal
  • Polish: Bengalczyk — person from Bengal
  • Polish: Bengalka — person from Bengal
  • Russian: бенга́лец (bengálec) — person from Bengal
  • Russian: бенга́лка (bengálka) — person from Bengal
  • Spanish: bengalí — person from Bengal
  • Swahili: Mbengali — person from Bengal
  • Swedish: bengal — person from Bengal
  • Tajik: банголӣ (bangoli) — person from Bengal
  • Telugu: బెంగాలీ (beṅgālī) — person from Bengal
  • Turkish: Bengalli — person from Bengal
  • Turkish: Bengaleli — person from Bengal
  • Ottoman Turkish: بنكالهلی (bengaleli) — person from Bengal
  • Urdu: بنگالی (bangālī) — person from Bengal
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