Bengal
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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Portuguese Bengala, from Classical Persian بَنْگَالَه (bangāla), from Middle Bengali বাঙ্গালা (baṅgala), said to be from the Vanga Kingdom, of uncertain ultimate origin. Vangalam has been attested in medieval South India. Doublet of Bangla.
Pronunciation
- (India) IPA(key): /bɛŋ.ˈɡɔːl/
- (UK) IPA(key): /bɛŋˈɡɔːl/, /bɛŋˈɡɑːl/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (US) IPA(key): /bɛŋˈɡɑl/, /ˈbɛŋˌɡəl/
- Rhymes: (UK, India) -ɔːl, (UK, US) -ɑːl, (US) -ɛŋɡəl
Proper noun
Bengal
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- A region in the northeast of South Asia, today divided between Bangladesh and India (particularly the state of West Bengal).
Derived terms
Translations
region in South Asia
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Noun
Bengal (plural Bengals)
- A short-haired domestic cat of a particular breed that originated in the United States.
- Synonym: Bengal cat
- (American football) A player on the team The Cincinnati Bengals.
- Jones became a Bengal in a trade for Smith.
- A Bengal tiger.
See also
- Bengali
- East Bengal
- West Bengal
- Bay of Bengal
- Bengal babbler
- Bengal tiger
- Bengal fox
- Bangla
- Bengal light
- Bangladesh
Anagrams
Finnish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From English Bengal, from Portuguese Bengala.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Bengal
- Bengal (a region of South Asia, today divided between India and Bangladesh)
Declension
Inflection of Bengal (Kotus type 6/paperi, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | Bengal | — | |
genitive | Bengalin | — | |
partitive | Bengalia | — | |
illative | Bengaliin | — | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | Bengal | — | |
accusative | nom. | Bengal | — |
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. |
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Derived terms
compounds
Categories:
- English terms borrowed from Portuguese
- English terms derived from Portuguese
- English terms derived from Classical Persian
- English terms derived from Middle Bengali
- English doublets
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio links
- Rhymes:English/ɔːl
- Rhymes:English/ɔːl/2 syllables
- Rhymes:English/ɑːl
- Rhymes:English/ɑːl/2 syllables
- Rhymes:English/ɛŋɡəl
- Rhymes:English/ɛŋɡəl/2 syllables
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- en:Regions of South Asia
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Football (American)
- English terms with usage examples
- en:Domestic cats
- en:India
- Finnish terms derived from English
- Finnish terms derived from Portuguese
- Finnish 2-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/eŋːɑl
- Rhymes:Finnish/eŋːɑl/2 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish proper nouns
- fi:Regions of Asia
- fi:Places in India
- fi:Places in Bangladesh
- Finnish paperi-type nominals
- Finnish uncountable nouns