Bangladesh

Type Country
Usage Bengali, Assamese, Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Telugu, English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Estonian, Russian, Bulgarian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Uzbek, Mongolian, Armenian, Hebrew, Persian, Indonesian, Malay
Scripts বাংলাদেশ(Bengali, Assamese) बांग्लादेश(Hindi) बांगलादेश(Marathi) બાંગ્લાદેશ(Gujarati) బంగ్లాదేశ్(Telugu) Бангладеш(Russian, Bulgarian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Uzbek, Mongolian Cyrillic) Բանգլադեշ(Armenian) בַּנְגְּלָדֶשׁ(Hebrew) بنگلادش(Persian)
Pronounced Pron. /ˈbaŋ.la.ˌd̪eʃ/(Bengali) /ˌbæŋ.ɡlə.ˈdɛʃ/(English) /bɑ̃.ɡla.dɛʃ/(French) /ˌbɑŋ.ɡlaː.ˈdɛʃ/(Dutch) /ˈbɑŋ.lɑ.deʃ/(Finnish) /ˈbɑŋ.lɑ.des/(Finnish) /bən.ɡlɐ.ˈdɛʂ/(Russian) /bɑŋ.ɡlɑ.ˈdɛʃ/(Armenian)  [key·simplify]

Meaning & History

From Bengali বাংলাদেশ (Bānglādesh) meaning "country of the Bengali people", from the name of the Bengali people বাংলা (Bānglā) combined with দেশ (desh) "country, state". The ethnic name is derived from that of the ancient kingdom of Vanga. This is the name of a country in south Asia.

Related Names

RootsBānglā + deśa
Other Languages & CulturesBanghladish(Arabic) Banhladesh(Belarusian) Bangladeš(Bosnian) Bangladeš(Croatian) Bangladéš(Czech) Bangladesch(German) Banglades(Hungarian) Banguradeshu(Japanese) Bangladeša(Latvian) Bangladešas(Lithuanian) Bangladesz(Polish) Bangladeš(Serbian) Bangladéš(Slovak) Bangladeš(Slovene) Bangladés(Spanish) Bangladeş(Turkish) Banhladesh(Ukrainian)
User SubmissionsBan'gladësh, Bangladèsh
Entry updated December 1, 2024