HOW TO PRONOUNCE
bengal
/bɛŋˈɡɑl/
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What does bengal mean?
noun
- A short-haired domestic cat of a particular breed that originated in the United States.
- A player on the team The Cincinnati Bengals.
- A Bengal tiger.
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adjective
- Of or pertaining to the Bengal region.
proper noun
- A geographic region in the northeast of South Asia today divided between Bangladesh and India (particularly the state of West Bengal).
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IPA pronunciation
/bɛŋˈɡɑl/
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The result of this wise policy was that scarcity was heightened into famine only in one remote corner of Bengal.
It is in the mint, perhaps, rated too high for the value which it bears in the market of Bengal.
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Long may Indian sportsmen find plenty of 'foemen worthy of their steel' in the old grey boar, the fighting tusker of Bengal.
A comfortable railway journey of seventeen and a half hours brought us to the capital of India, which is likewise the capital of Bengal—Calcutta.
Seeing this, the travellers attempted to signal by igniting and lowering a Bengal Light, which was directly followed by the beating of drums from below.