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单词 Bengali
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Definition of Bengali in English:

Bengali

nounPlural Bengalis bɛŋˈɡɔːliˌbɛŋˈɡɑli
  • 1A native or inhabitant of Bengal.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • In the north, Bengalis, Kashmiris, Punjabis, Gujaratis, Rajputs, and Marathas are among the prominent groups.
    • They raise their family in the Massachusetts suburbs, where they form a close circle of friends with other émigré Bengalis.
    • Some of the most populous Indian groups within the United States are Gujaratis, Bengalis, Punjabis, Marathis, and Tamils.
    • Today, it is estimated that there are 240 Bengalis in the city, around 80 families, with a majority of them employed at the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre.
    • The Hindu Bengalis were the first Indians to master the English language and to learn their master's ways, the first to flatter him by emulation, and the first to earn his distrust by unbidden demonstrations of wit and industry.
    • As with other Hindus, Bengalis cremate the dead.
    • Today, I can't make films only for the Bengalis, it must be for a wider audience, not only at home but also people spread across the world in these globalised times.
    • Following the demolition, there was a gradual migration north to the Commercial Road area and, by the middle of the 1960s, many Bengalis were settling around Brick Lane.
    • Many homesick Bengalis in Bangalore have discovered a small restaurant tucked away in the heart of the Majestic area that gives them a taste of home-cooked food.
    • This perception refers to the fact that Bengal was the first imperial bridgehead in India and Bengalis the first group of Indians who took to English education.
    • Though Dhaka, a chaotic megacity with a population uncountably north of 10 million, dominates the political life of the nation, 80 percent of Bengalis still live in rural areas.
    • With the creation of Bangladesh in 1971, official records were of emigration from that country, separate from that of Indians and Bengalis.
    • ‘What you see today is a result of the initiative of the families resettled here,’ said a group of Bengalis.
    • Then there was the ‘Gajan Dance’ that signifies the year-end for the Bengalis and is meant to be a tribute to goddess Durga in the month of Chaitra (March-April).
    • We had Bengalis, Pakistanis, Somalis and, of course, white working class people.
    • We have come a long way from 1978, when violence against Asians was so alarming that 10,000 Bengalis marched from Whitechapel to Whitehall to protest against the murder of a garment worker near Brick Lane.
    • Then, in varying degrees, came the turn of the Bengalis, the Mohajirs and the Sindhis, and the Baloches.
    • Expatriates from the Indian subcontinent staff stores, Bengalis cut hair in countless barbershops, and groups of Somali youth offer to wash your car at busy urban parking lots.
    • I am a Bengali and the centre really helped me because all kinds of people mix here, Bengalis and Pakistanis and other Asians.
    • The Indian Bengalis and the Bengali expatriates all over the world would pay almost anything to have Hilsha in their plate.
  • 2mass noun An Indic language spoken in Bangladesh and parts of north-eastern India, written in a script similar to the Devanagari script.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • He is a linguist and fluently speaks in Urdu, Persian, Tamil, Nepali, Bengali, Hindi and Assamese, besides English and Khasi languages.
    • Raised in Seattle, she remembers Bengali simply as the language her parents argued in.
    • Though Begum Azad has sung in other languages including Bengali, Hindi, Urdu and Telugu, it is her mother-tongue that she is most comfortable with.
    • But in recent years, store signs in Polish have been joined by signs written in Bengali and Arabic.
    • His works have been translated into numerous Indian languages including Hindi, Bengali and Malayalam.
    • Directions are given in English, Gujarati, Urdu or Bengali, depending on which card the user is carrying.
    • Italian and German don't even make it into the top ten of world languages - unlike Arabic, Malay or Bengali.
    • The community researchers translated the tapes in Punjabi, Urdu, Bengali, and Sylheti into English.
    • They speak mainly Nepali but also understand Hindi, Bengali and English.
    • The children are expected to know everything in two languages - Bengali and English.
    • Thus Tagore never wrote fiction or poetry in any language other than Bengali.
    • We meet children who speak Bengali, English, and Welsh, reminding us that, in fact, 70% of the world is multilingual; it is only in England where this seems unusual.
    • She could read and write Bengali, Gujarati, English and Hindi of course was her natural medium of expression.
    • An additional 439,239 people reported speaking other Indic languages, such as Punjabi, Bengali and Malayalam.
    • The charity has staff who can speak various languages including Punjabi, Hindi, Urdu, Bengali, Gujarati and Chinese.
    • Information will be given out either through audio or visual means in languages including Urdu, Mirpuri Punjabi, Bengali, Gujerati and Chinese.
    • Though English continues to be a strong second language in Bangladesh, Bengali is the official language of government and education.
    • But one or two were very intelligent and any that could talk could speak at least English and Bengali - some could speak up to 5 languages.
    • Clearly Hasina is writing in Bengali, her mother tongue.
    • This polyglot is not only fluent in these two languages but also in Bengali, Hindi, Tamil (his mother tongue) and English.
adjective bɛŋˈɡɔːliˌbɛŋˈɡɑli
  • Relating to Bengal, its people, or their language.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • There is a huge market for Bengali cinema in other states.
    • I have done a lot of art films in the past and have signed two more Bengali period films.
    • The 34-year-old Bengali beauty with the voice of a nightingale, started her career as a music teacher.
    • In doing this, he was also aware of our limited film stock and the budgetary constraints anyone working in Bengali films then had to be careful about.
    • She developed a fascination with the sub-continent while teaching Bengali children at a school and had twice been to Bangladesh teaching on working delegations with her friend.
    • The restaurant specialises in northern Indian and Bengali cooking, and tries to offer a mixture of traditional favourites and new takes on old dishes, all made with locally sourced ingredients.
    • The most striking thing of the show was that there were Bengali folk songs playing in the background which blended extremely well with the festivity.
    • To ensure that the girls know and understand their own Bangladeshi culture local Bangladeshi artists and musicians conduct classes in drawing, singing, dancing and recitation of Bengali poems.
    • And the Bangladeshi channels now have to be helped by all quarters to provide more entertaining programs, which represent Bengali culture and uphold our interest.
    • Having shot into prominence when it seemed that Bengali cinema too was going the Bollywood way, Ghosh managed to stay in the commercial realm and made films with living, breathing characters a success.
    • During the course of the event, the conversation between Tagore and Einstein will be broadcast, Baul and Bengali songs will be preformed and there will be a virtual string quartet.
    • The collection is impressive, ranging from relics of the Gandhara colony established by Alexander the Great, through ancient Bengali sculpture, Moghul paintings to Hindu sculpture.
    • Bangladesh, which means the ‘Land of the Bengalis’ in the Bengali language, is a republic located in Southeast Asia.
    • These two will be followed by the launch of four specialised channels in all the four southern languages, and also a Bengali channel.
    • The restaurant offers the usual range of balti and Bengali dishes and curries, as well as a comprehensive selection of house specialities and chef's recommendations.
    • The play centres around two Bengali lovers, Ela and Atindra.
    • The aim is to offer traditional Bengali cuisine.
    • They also played some Bengali songs low in the background.
    • The six-storey complex houses a plethora of Bengali community associations, a mosque, two boys' schools, a gym, several lecture halls.
    • But it will also depend on how you see the people living in Bengali villages.

Origin

From Hindi baṅgālī.

Rhymes

Cawley, crawly, creepy-crawly, Macaulay, Morley, Nepali, poorly, rawly, scrawly, squally
 
 

Definition of Bengali in US English:

Bengali

nounˌbeNGˈɡälēˌbɛŋˈɡɑli
  • 1A native or inhabitant of Bengal.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • As with other Hindus, Bengalis cremate the dead.
    • Then there was the ‘Gajan Dance’ that signifies the year-end for the Bengalis and is meant to be a tribute to goddess Durga in the month of Chaitra (March-April).
    • Then, in varying degrees, came the turn of the Bengalis, the Mohajirs and the Sindhis, and the Baloches.
    • Today, I can't make films only for the Bengalis, it must be for a wider audience, not only at home but also people spread across the world in these globalised times.
    • They raise their family in the Massachusetts suburbs, where they form a close circle of friends with other émigré Bengalis.
    • Today, it is estimated that there are 240 Bengalis in the city, around 80 families, with a majority of them employed at the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre.
    • This perception refers to the fact that Bengal was the first imperial bridgehead in India and Bengalis the first group of Indians who took to English education.
    • The Hindu Bengalis were the first Indians to master the English language and to learn their master's ways, the first to flatter him by emulation, and the first to earn his distrust by unbidden demonstrations of wit and industry.
    • Following the demolition, there was a gradual migration north to the Commercial Road area and, by the middle of the 1960s, many Bengalis were settling around Brick Lane.
    • Some of the most populous Indian groups within the United States are Gujaratis, Bengalis, Punjabis, Marathis, and Tamils.
    • Many homesick Bengalis in Bangalore have discovered a small restaurant tucked away in the heart of the Majestic area that gives them a taste of home-cooked food.
    • Expatriates from the Indian subcontinent staff stores, Bengalis cut hair in countless barbershops, and groups of Somali youth offer to wash your car at busy urban parking lots.
    • We have come a long way from 1978, when violence against Asians was so alarming that 10,000 Bengalis marched from Whitechapel to Whitehall to protest against the murder of a garment worker near Brick Lane.
    • I am a Bengali and the centre really helped me because all kinds of people mix here, Bengalis and Pakistanis and other Asians.
    • With the creation of Bangladesh in 1971, official records were of emigration from that country, separate from that of Indians and Bengalis.
    • ‘What you see today is a result of the initiative of the families resettled here,’ said a group of Bengalis.
    • Though Dhaka, a chaotic megacity with a population uncountably north of 10 million, dominates the political life of the nation, 80 percent of Bengalis still live in rural areas.
    • In the north, Bengalis, Kashmiris, Punjabis, Gujaratis, Rajputs, and Marathas are among the prominent groups.
    • The Indian Bengalis and the Bengali expatriates all over the world would pay almost anything to have Hilsha in their plate.
    • We had Bengalis, Pakistanis, Somalis and, of course, white working class people.
  • 2An Indic language spoken in Bangladesh and parts of northeastern India, written in a script similar to the Devanagari script.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Directions are given in English, Gujarati, Urdu or Bengali, depending on which card the user is carrying.
    • An additional 439,239 people reported speaking other Indic languages, such as Punjabi, Bengali and Malayalam.
    • Though English continues to be a strong second language in Bangladesh, Bengali is the official language of government and education.
    • The children are expected to know everything in two languages - Bengali and English.
    • Italian and German don't even make it into the top ten of world languages - unlike Arabic, Malay or Bengali.
    • His works have been translated into numerous Indian languages including Hindi, Bengali and Malayalam.
    • Clearly Hasina is writing in Bengali, her mother tongue.
    • She could read and write Bengali, Gujarati, English and Hindi of course was her natural medium of expression.
    • We meet children who speak Bengali, English, and Welsh, reminding us that, in fact, 70% of the world is multilingual; it is only in England where this seems unusual.
    • They speak mainly Nepali but also understand Hindi, Bengali and English.
    • He is a linguist and fluently speaks in Urdu, Persian, Tamil, Nepali, Bengali, Hindi and Assamese, besides English and Khasi languages.
    • But in recent years, store signs in Polish have been joined by signs written in Bengali and Arabic.
    • This polyglot is not only fluent in these two languages but also in Bengali, Hindi, Tamil (his mother tongue) and English.
    • The community researchers translated the tapes in Punjabi, Urdu, Bengali, and Sylheti into English.
    • The charity has staff who can speak various languages including Punjabi, Hindi, Urdu, Bengali, Gujarati and Chinese.
    • Though Begum Azad has sung in other languages including Bengali, Hindi, Urdu and Telugu, it is her mother-tongue that she is most comfortable with.
    • Information will be given out either through audio or visual means in languages including Urdu, Mirpuri Punjabi, Bengali, Gujerati and Chinese.
    • Raised in Seattle, she remembers Bengali simply as the language her parents argued in.
    • But one or two were very intelligent and any that could talk could speak at least English and Bengali - some could speak up to 5 languages.
    • Thus Tagore never wrote fiction or poetry in any language other than Bengali.
adjectiveˌbeNGˈɡälēˌbɛŋˈɡɑli
  • Relating to Bengal, its people, or their language.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • During the course of the event, the conversation between Tagore and Einstein will be broadcast, Baul and Bengali songs will be preformed and there will be a virtual string quartet.
    • In doing this, he was also aware of our limited film stock and the budgetary constraints anyone working in Bengali films then had to be careful about.
    • She developed a fascination with the sub-continent while teaching Bengali children at a school and had twice been to Bangladesh teaching on working delegations with her friend.
    • The most striking thing of the show was that there were Bengali folk songs playing in the background which blended extremely well with the festivity.
    • Having shot into prominence when it seemed that Bengali cinema too was going the Bollywood way, Ghosh managed to stay in the commercial realm and made films with living, breathing characters a success.
    • The play centres around two Bengali lovers, Ela and Atindra.
    • I have done a lot of art films in the past and have signed two more Bengali period films.
    • To ensure that the girls know and understand their own Bangladeshi culture local Bangladeshi artists and musicians conduct classes in drawing, singing, dancing and recitation of Bengali poems.
    • Bangladesh, which means the ‘Land of the Bengalis’ in the Bengali language, is a republic located in Southeast Asia.
    • The restaurant specialises in northern Indian and Bengali cooking, and tries to offer a mixture of traditional favourites and new takes on old dishes, all made with locally sourced ingredients.
    • These two will be followed by the launch of four specialised channels in all the four southern languages, and also a Bengali channel.
    • And the Bangladeshi channels now have to be helped by all quarters to provide more entertaining programs, which represent Bengali culture and uphold our interest.
    • There is a huge market for Bengali cinema in other states.
    • The collection is impressive, ranging from relics of the Gandhara colony established by Alexander the Great, through ancient Bengali sculpture, Moghul paintings to Hindu sculpture.
    • But it will also depend on how you see the people living in Bengali villages.
    • The 34-year-old Bengali beauty with the voice of a nightingale, started her career as a music teacher.
    • The restaurant offers the usual range of balti and Bengali dishes and curries, as well as a comprehensive selection of house specialities and chef's recommendations.
    • The aim is to offer traditional Bengali cuisine.
    • They also played some Bengali songs low in the background.
    • The six-storey complex houses a plethora of Bengali community associations, a mosque, two boys' schools, a gym, several lecture halls.

Origin

From Hindi baṅgālī.

 
 
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