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bangladesh

UK/ˌbæŋ.ɡləˈdɛʃ/US/ˌbæŋ.ɡləˈdɛʃ/
nounB1+Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #10,848 of 15,258mostly written

Bangladesh is the river-woven South Asian country east of India. Travel to Bangladesh, born in Bangladesh, the delta of Bangladesh.

It sits on the largest river delta in the world, which makes it enormously fertile and enormously exposed: a metre of sea level rise would displace millions. It is among the most densely populated countries there is, and the name means land of Bengal.

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Definitions of bangladesh

  1. 1nounbangladeshA country in South Asia.B1+

    “Floods are common in Bangladesh during the monsoon season.”

bangladesh is a country.

Where it comes from

  1. bn

    বাংলাদেশ

  2. English

    Bangladesh

  3. English, today

    bangladesh

Built from

  • বাংলা · bn — Bengali
  • দেশ · bn — country

Bangladesh comes from bn বাংলাদেশ, from বাংলা (“Bengali”) + দেশ (“country”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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