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1. An ethnic group speaking Bengali and living in Bangladesh and eastern India
    
2. A Magadhan language spoken by the Bengali people; the official language of Bangladesh and Bengal
   - Bangla, Bengali language, Bangla language
    
3. (Hinduism) a member of a people living in Bangladesh and West Bengal (mainly Hindus)

1. Of or relating to or characteristic of Bengal or its people
   "Bengali hills"

Derived forms: Bengalis

Type of: Asian, Asiatic, ethnic group, ethnos, Magadhan

Part of: Bangla Desh, Bangladesh, East Pakistan, People's Republic of Bangladesh

Encyclopedia: Bengali, Nancowry