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Bengale

/bɛ̃.ɡal/

proper noun/bɛ̃.ɡal/

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

Related: bengalais, Bengalais, Bengalaise, bengalaise, Bengali, bengali, tigre du Bengale

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