Bengalee

English

Noun

Bengalee (plural Bengalees)

  1. Archaic form of Bengali.
    • 1856, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 80, page 237:
      Our early popular ideas of the mildness and effeminacy of the Hindoos were derived from the Bengalees, and are by no means characteristic of the general population of India.
    • 1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 31:
      The Klings of Western India are a numerous body of Mahometans, and, with many Arabs, are petty merchants and shopkeepers. The grooms and washermen are all Bengalees, and there is a small but highly respectable class of Parsee merchants.

Proper noun

Bengalee

  1. Archaic form of Bengali.

Adjective

Bengalee (comparative more Bengalee, superlative most Bengalee)

  1. Archaic form of Bengali.
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