Bengala

See also: bengala and bengāļa

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese Bengala, from Classical Persian بَنْگَالَه (bangāla).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [bəŋˈɡa.lə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [beŋˈɡa.la]

Proper noun

Bengala f

1. Bengal (a geographic region in the northeast of South Asia today divided between Bangladesh and India (particularly the state of West Bengal))

Derived terms

• Baixa Bengala
• Bengala Occidental
• Bengala Oriental
• bengalí
• golf de Bengala
• llum de bengala
• Presidència de Bengala

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French Bengala, from Portuguese Bengala, from Classical Persian بَنْگَالَه (bangāla).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɛ̃.ɡa.la/

Proper noun

Bengala m

1. archaic form of Bengale
   • 1637, Pierre d'Avity, Le monde, page 501:

     Mais depuis il a perdu le Bengala, […]

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   • 1663, Pierre Duval, Le monde, page 195:

     Le Bengala eſt renommé par l’abondance de ſon riz, […]

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   • 1681, Louis Moréri, Grand dictionnaire historique, page 561:

     Le Bengala eſt le païs du monde le plus fertile, [..]

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   • 1723, Bernard Picart, Ceremonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde, page 21:

     On voit ſur la frontiere du Bengala un bœuf d’une grandeur exceſſive […]

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   • 1736, La géographie moderne, page 634:

     Le Bengala, autrement nommé Jagannat, eſt autour des bouches du Gange, […]

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese Bengala, from Classical Persian بَنْگَالَه (bangāla).

Proper noun

Bengala m

1. Bengal (a geographic region in the northeast of South Asia today divided between Bangladesh and India (particularly the state of West Bengal))

Anagrams

• Albegna, Albenga, balenga

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese Bengala, from Classical Persian بَنْگَالَه (bangāla).

Pronunciation

• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [beŋˈɡaː.la]

Proper noun

Bengāla f sg (genitive Bengālae); first declension

1. (New Latin) Bengal (a geographic region in the northeast of South Asia today divided between Bangladesh and India (particularly the state of West Bengal))

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Bengāla
genitive	Bengālae
dative	Bengālae
accusative	Bengālam
ablative	Bengālā
vocative	Bengāla
locative	Bengālae

Derived terms

• Bengālicus

Middle French

Alternative forms

• Bengale

Etymology

From Portuguese Bengala, from Classical Persian بَنْگَالَه (bangāla).

Proper noun

Bengala

1. Bengal (a geographic region in the northeast of South Asia today divided between Bangladesh and India (particularly the state of West Bengal))
   • 1575, La cosmographie universelle, page 406:

     […] le long du goulfe de Bengala.

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Descendants

• French: Bengala (archaic)

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian بَنْگَالَه (bangāla).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /bẽˈɡa.lɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /bẽˈɡa.lɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /bẽˈɡa.la/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /bẽˈɡa.lɐ/

Proper noun

Bengala f

1. Bengal (a geographic region in the northeast of South Asia today divided between Bangladesh and India (particularly the state of West Bengal))

Related terms

• bengala
• bengali

Descendants

• → Catalan: Bengala
• → Dutch: Bengalen
• → English: Bengal
• → German: Bengalen
• → Italian: Bengala
• → Middle French: Bengala
  • French: Bengala (archaic)
  • ⇒ Middle French: Bengale
    • French: Bengale
• → New Latin: Bengāla
• → Occitan: Bengala
• ⇒ Russian: Бенга́лия (Bengálija)
• → Spanish: Bengala
• ⇒ Ukrainian: Бенга́лія (Benhálija)

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese Bengala, from Classical Persian بَنْگَالَه (bangāla).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /benˈɡala/ [bẽŋˈɡa.la]
• Rhymes: -ala
• Syllabification: Ben‧ga‧la

Proper noun

Bengala m

1. Bengal (a geographic region in the northeast of South Asia today divided between Bangladesh and India (particularly the state of West Bengal))

Derived terms

• Bengala Occidental
• golfo de Bengala
• membrillo de Bengala
• tigre de Bengala