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Bengali   /bɛŋgˈɑli/   Listen
Bengali

noun
1.
(Hinduism) a member of a people living in Bangladesh and West Bengal (mainly Hindus).
2.
An ethnic group speaking Bengali and living in Bangladesh and eastern India.
3.
A Magadhan language spoken by the Bengali people; the official language of Bangladesh and Bengal.  Synonym: Bangla.





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"Bengali" Quotes from Famous Books



... training under my father's eye was of a sternly scientific character. He was determined that I should be a great mathematician or a scientist, but the poetic instinct, which I inherited from him and also from my mother (who wrote some lovely Bengali lyrics in her youth), proved stronger. One day, when I was eleven, I was sighing over a sum in algebra; it wouldn't come right; but instead a whole poem came to me suddenly. ...
— Figures of Several Centuries • Arthur Symons


Words linked to "Bengali" :   Hindooism, Bangladesh, Bangla, ethnic group, Asian, Bangla Desh, Bengal, People's Republic of Bangladesh, East Pakistan, Magadhan, Hinduism, ethnos, Asiatic


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