What does "bengali" mean?

A person from Bengal or of Bengali descent.

How do you pronounce "bengali"?

Pronounced //bɛŋˈɡɔːli//.

Common synonyms include: bangla, bangla language, bengal, bengalese, bengalese language, bengali individual.

/bɛŋˈɡɔːli/ adj, name, noun

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Noun

1
A person from Bengal or of Bengali descent. countable, uncountable
2
a Magadhan language spoken by the Bengali people; the official language of Bangladesh and Bengal wordnet
3
an ethnic group speaking Bengali and living in Bangladesh and eastern India wordnet
4
(Hinduism) a member of a people living in Bangladesh and West Bengal (mainly Hindus) wordnet

Adjective

1
Of, from or pertaining to Bengal or the Bengalis. not-comparable
"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."

Adjective

Proper Noun

1
A language spoken in Bangladesh and the states of Assam, Tripura and West Bengal, India.
2
A village in Nancowry tehsil, Nicobar district, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India.

"I wasn't good at Bengali at the time."

Equivalent to Bengal + -i. Compare Assamese বঙালী (boṅali), Bengali বাঙালি (baṅali), Hindi बंगाली (baṅgālī), Classical Persian بنگالی (bangālī).