Relating to Bengal, a region in South Asia, or its people, language, and culture.
Derived from Bengal, the historical region spanning parts of modern India and Bangladesh, with the -ese suffix added to create an adjective meaning 'of or relating to.' This follows the same pattern as Chinese, Japanese, and Portuguese.
Bengal is where the writer Rabindranath Tagore, the filmmaker Satyajit Ray, and some of the world's most important philosophers and scientists came from—yet 'Bengalese' is actually less common than saying 'Bengali,' which proves that multiple words for the same group of people often exist side by side.
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