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Bengali   /bɛŋgˈɑli/   Listen
Bengali

adjective
1.
Of or relating to or characteristic of Bengal or its people.






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"Bengali" Quotes from Famous Books



... of the "Old Woman and her Pig" (No. iv.), which see. It is curious that a very similar "run" is added by Bengali women at the end of every folk-tale they tell (Lal Behari Day, Folk Tales ...
— English Fairy Tales • Joseph Jacobs (coll. & ed.)

... alluded to the sad, dejected faces of the natives of North India; the Bengali seemed a trifle more melancholy, as is their reputation. We did not regret our departure, although it meant the loss of our faithful Indian guide, Dalle, and our travelling servant, Jusef, both with their ...
— Travels in the Far East • Ellen Mary Hayes Peck

... The paragraph in which the journal dismissed poor Fry to his reward was not unkind, but it distinctly implied that the removal of Fry should include the removal of his ideas and methods, and the substitution of something rather more up to date. It remarked that the Bengali student had been pinned down long enough to drawing plaster casts, and declared that something should be done to awake within him the creative idea. I remember the phrase, it seemed so directly to suggest that the person to awake ...
— The Pool in the Desert • Sara Jeannette Duncan



Words linked to "Bengali" :   Hindooism, Asian, Asiatic, ethnos, ethnic group, Bangla Desh, Magadhan, East Pakistan, Bengal, People's Republic of Bangladesh, Hinduism, Bangladesh



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