Bangla
//ˈbaŋla// name, noun
name, noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Bengali (ethnicity). nonstandard
"This cooking's so different he says, from their Bangla cooking."
- 2 A Bangladeshi. British, Malaysia, Singapore, ethnic, offensive, slur
- 3 a Magadhan language spoken by the Bengali people; the official language of Bangladesh and Bengal wordnet
Proper Noun
- 1 Synonym of Bengali (language). nonstandard
"The segmental phones of Bangla are slightly different from those of other Indo-European languages."
- 2 Synonym of Bengal (region). nonstandard
"Historian Neehar Ranjan Roy has said that although the place lay on the footsteps of the Himalayas, it was in fact linked to the Bangla region."
Example
More examples"I wasn't good at Bangla at the time."
Etymology
Etymology 1
Unadapted borrowing from Bengali বাংলা (baṅla).
Etymology 2
Clipping of Bangladeshi.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.