Bengal
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Portuguese Bengala, from Classical Persian بنگاله (bangâla).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (India) IPA(key): /bɛŋ.ˈɡɔːl/
- (UK) IPA(key): /bɛŋˈɡɔːl/, /bɛŋˈɡɑːl/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (US) IPA(key): /bɛŋˈɡɑl/, /ˈbɛŋˌɡəl/
- Rhymes: (UK, India) -ɔːl, (UK, US) -ɑːl, (US) -ɛŋɡəl
Proper noun
[edit]Bengal
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- A region in the northeast of South Asia, today divided between Bangladesh and India (particularly the state of West Bengal).
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]region in South Asia
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Noun
[edit]Bengal (plural Bengals)
- A short-haired domestic cat of a particular breed that originated in the United States.
- Synonym: Bengal cat
- (American football) A player on the team The Cincinnati Bengals.
- Jones became a Bengal in a trade for Smith.
- A Bengal tiger.
See also
[edit]- Bengali
- East Bengal
- West Bengal
- Bay of Bengal
- Bengal babbler
- Bengal tiger
- Bengal fox
- Bangla
- Bengal light
- Bangladesh
Anagrams
[edit]Finnish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From English Bengal, from Portuguese Bengala.
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Bengal
- Bengal (a region of South Asia, today divided between India and Bangladesh)
Declension
[edit]Inflection of Bengal (Kotus type 6/paperi, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | Bengal | — | |
genitive | Bengalin | — | |
partitive | Bengalia | — | |
illative | Bengaliin | — | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | Bengal | — | |
accusative | nom. | Bengal | — |
gen. | Bengalin | ||
genitive | Bengalin | — | |
partitive | Bengalia | — | |
inessive | Bengalissa | — | |
elative | Bengalista | — | |
illative | Bengaliin | — | |
adessive | Bengalilla | — | |
ablative | Bengalilta | — | |
allative | Bengalille | — | |
essive | Bengalina | — | |
translative | Bengaliksi | — | |
abessive | Bengalitta | — | |
instructive | — | — | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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Derived terms
[edit]compounds
Categories:
- English terms derived from Portuguese
- English terms derived from Classical Persian
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio links
- Rhymes:English/ɔːl
- Rhymes:English/ɔːl/2 syllables
- Rhymes:English/ɑːl
- Rhymes:English/ɑːl/2 syllables
- Rhymes:English/ɛŋɡəl
- Rhymes:English/ɛŋɡəl/2 syllables
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- en:Regions of South Asia
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Football (American)
- en:Domestic cats
- en:India
- Finnish terms derived from English
- Finnish terms derived from Portuguese
- Finnish 2-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/eŋːɑl
- Rhymes:Finnish/eŋːɑl/2 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish proper nouns
- fi:Regions of Asia
- fi:Places in India
- fi:Places in Bangladesh
- Finnish paperi-type nominals
- Finnish uncountable nouns