बंगाल
Hindi
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Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Classical Persian بَنْگَال (bangāl), with itself being borrowed from Middle Bengali বাঙ্গালা (baṅgala) ultimately derived from Sanskrit वङ्ग (vaṅga), the name of the Vanga Kingdom.
Pronunciation
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[edit]बंगाल • (baṅgāl) m (Urdu spelling بنگال)
- Bengal (a geopolitical region comprising West Bengal and Bangladesh)
- (colloquial) West Bengal (a state of India)
Declension
[edit]Declension of बंगाल (masc cons-stem)
Derived terms
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- Hindi terms borrowed from Classical Persian
- Hindi terms derived from Classical Persian
- Hindi terms derived from Middle Bengali
- Hindi terms derived from Sanskrit
- Hindi terms with IPA pronunciation
- Hindi lemmas
- Hindi nouns
- Hindi masculine nouns
- Hindi colloquialisms
- hi:West Bengal
- hi:States of India
- hi:Places in India
- Hindi masculine consonant-stem nouns
- hi:South Asia