bengali

1. 1.

   of or relating to or characteristic of Bengal or its people

   “Bengali hills”

Other forms of bengali

plural

bengalis·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about bengali

What does bengali mean?

bengali means "(Hinduism) a member of a people living in Bangladesh and West Bengal (mainly Hindus)". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bengali?

bengali has 3 syllables: ben-ga-li. The stress falls on "ga". In IPA it is /bɛŋˈɡɑli/.

What is another word for bengali?

Close synonyms include Bangla. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bengali a common word?

bengali is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with bengali?

1 word rhymes with bengali. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.