(pl. Bengalis)
1
- a native of Bengal孟加拉人。
2
- mass noun the Indic language of Bangladesh and West Bengal, spoken by some 170 million people. It is written in a version of the Devanagari script.孟加拉语(孟加拉国和西孟加拉邦语言, 属印度-伊朗语族的印度语支, 约1.7亿人讲该语言, 其书写形式是天城书的一种)。
- of or relating to Bengal, its people, or their language(与)孟加拉(有关)的, (与)孟加拉人(有关)的, (与)孟加拉语(有关)的。
词源
from Hindi bangālī.