Bangladesh
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Place Name BANGLADESH

TYPE: Country
USAGE: English, Breton, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Interlingua, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish
OTHER SCRIPTS: বাংলাদেশ (Bengali)
PRONOUNCED: bayng-LA-desh (English)
OTHER FORMS: Bāṃlādēśa, Bānlādēśa
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CONTRIBUTOR: highexpectasians on 4/6/2017
LAST EDITOR: Beautiful Victory on 9/1/2017   [revision history]

Meaning & History

Means "land of the Bengalis", from Bengali বাংলা (Bangla) meaning "Bengali" (referring to the Bengali people or Bengali language spoken by the Bengali people), which is ultimately from Vanga, the name of an ancient kingdom on the Indian subcontinent (see Bengal) combined with দেশ (desh) "country, land, state", ultimately from Sanskrit देश (deśá). This is the name of a nation in South Asia.