বাংলা

Inherited from Middle Bengali বাঙ্গালা (baṅgala), ultimately from Sanskrit বঙ্গ (baṅga) and from the fact that the ancient rajahs of the region raised mounds of earth 10 feet high and 20 in breadth in lowlands at the foot of the hills which were called āl.

• (Rarh) IPA^(key): /baŋla/, [baŋlaˑ]

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• (Dhaka) IPA^(key): /baŋla/, [baŋlaˑ]
• IPA^(key): /ˈbaŋ.la/

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বাংলা • (baṅla) (genitive বাংলার (baṅlar), locative বাংলায় (baṅlaẏ))

1. Bengal region
2. Bengali, Bangla (language)

• বাংলা ভাষা (baṅla bhaśa)

• পশ্চিমবাংলা (pościmbaṁla), পশ্চিম বাংলা (pościm baṅla)
• পূর্ববাংলা (purbobaṅla), পূর্ব বাংলা (purbo baṅla)

বাংলা • (baṅla) (comparative আরও বাংলা, superlative সবচেয়ে বাংলা)

1. Bengali, Bangla; related to Bengal, the Bengali language or the Bengali people.
2. written in Bengali

• বঙ্গ (boṅgo)
• বাঙালি (baṅali)
• বাংলাদেশ (baṅladeś)
• বাংলাদেশী (baṅladeśi), বাংলাদেশি (baṅladeśi)

• Land of Two Rivers, Nitish Sengupta
• James Heitzman and Robert L. Worden, ed. (1989). Bangladesh: A country study.
• RIYAZU-S-SALĀTĪN: A History of Bengal by Ghulam Husain Salim, The Asiatic Society, Calcutta, 1902.