Bengali

[ ben-gaw-lee, -gah-, beng- ]

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noun

Bengali

/ bɛŋ-; bɛnˈɡɔːlɪ /

a member of a people living chiefly in Bangladesh and in West Bengal. The West Bengalis are mainly Hindus; the East Bengalis of Bangladesh are mainly Muslims
Also calledBangla the language of this people: the official language of Bangladesh and the chief language of West Bengal; it belongs to the Indic branch of the Indo-European family

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In our Bengali household — we are a famously fish-eating lot — it was quite the scandal.

From Ozy

I forgot then that he was an Afghan raisin-seller and I was a Bengali babu.

From Time

He did that first in a 1972 essay inspired by the plight of Bengali war refugees, where he laid out the drowning child argument for the first time.

From Vox

His final stage roles included King Lear, in a Bengali adaptation of Shakespeare’s play.

After graduating from the University of Calcutta in what is now Kolkata, he received a master’s degree from the school in Bengali literature.

We frequently enjoyed his Bengali vegetarian feasts while discussing different aspects of Eastern philosophy late into the night.

Shockingly, there is one nonwhite person in the cast, Salwa, or as MTV has dubbed her, “Bengali in boots.”

Verbally, Hindi and Urdu are very similar, and Punjabi and Bengali are related to Hindi and Urdu.

The studio also acquired the remake rights to the documentary The Bengali Detective.

The language itself is called Rukheng by those who use it; but the Bengali name is Mug.

If the question were settled by a reference to authorities, the answer would be that the Bengali was essentially Sanskrit.

There is no single Assamese nationality, and the Assamese language is merely a modern dialect of Bengali.

To outface and down-talk a Calcutta-taught Bengali, a voluble Dacca drug-vendor, would be a good game.

But the Bengali, appearing from somewhere, had given them money, and would make shift with their dialect.

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