Bangla
noun
another name for Bengali (sense 2)
Contemporary Examples
On Choturmatrik, a bangla blog, Taef Ahmad had written: “Even wild animals living in the jungle are more humane than this.”
Mauled by Her Husband? Asra Q. Nomani July 15, 2011
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