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Bengali

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
Bengali /bɛŋˈgɔːli/

▶noun (pl. Bengalis)

1 a native or inhabitant of Bengal.

2 the Indic language of Bangladesh and West Bengal, written in a script similar to the Devanagari script.

▶adjective relating to Bengal, its people, or their language.

– origin from Hindi baṅgālī.

'Bengali' also found in these Oxford entries:

Assamese - Bangla - bhuna - chamcha - chaulmoogra - gayal - jalfrezi - jute - neta - poisha - sola - Sylheti - taka

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