Bengali
English
Etymology
Equivalent to Bengal + -i, borrowed from Bengali বাঙ্গালী (baṅgali). Compare Assamese বঙালী (boṅali), Hindi बंगाली (baṅgālī), Classical Persian بنگالی (bangālī).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bɛŋˈɡɔːli/
- (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /bɛŋˈɡɑli/
Audio (US) (file)
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:
- 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)
- (countable) A person from Bengal or of Bengali descent.
- (uncountable) A language spoken in Bangladesh and the states of Assam, Tripura and West Bengal, India.
- (uncountable) A village in Nancowry, Nicobar district, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India.
Synonyms
Translations
person from Bengal
|
language
|
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
Finnish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbeŋːɑli/, [ˈbe̞ŋːɑ̝li]
- Rhymes: -eŋːɑli
- Syllabification(key): Ben‧ga‧li
Declension
| Inflection of Bengali (Kotus type 6/paperi, 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 | — | ||
| abessive | Bengalitta | — | ||
| instructive | — | — | ||
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | |||
| Possessive forms of Bengali (Kotus type 6/paperi, no gradation) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derived terms
Anagrams
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.