Banglaphile

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noun

Someone who loves Bengal, Bengali culture, cuisine, history or its people.

Scrabble 19

Meanings

nounBanglaphile (plural Banglaphiles)

plural Banglaphiles

  1. Someone who loves Bengal, Bengali culture, cuisine, history or its people.

    Heavy Banglaphiles can also check out these unofficial […]

    1997, Business India, numbers 509-512, A. H. Advani, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 128
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    "Medium" income allows a household a life of no physical deprivation but relatively few frills. Their children usually go to not quite the best schools, and the whole family is likely to be less westernised, perhaps even aggressively "Banglaphile" in dress, manners, and artistic tastes.

    1991, Abu Abdullah, Modernisation at Bay: Structure and Change in Bangladesh (BIDS studies in development), University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 110

    Novak, who has been visiting Bangladesh for more than 20 years and who was the Asia Foundation's representative there in the early 1980s, is an acknowledged Banglaphile.

    1994, Far Eastern Economic Review, volume 157, Far Eastern Economic Review Limited, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 37

    For Grass, a renowned Banglaphile, hope is personified in a Bengali who is in the cycle rickshaw business, a man free from “nationalistic narrowness.”

    1999 October 2, “Leaves of Grass”, in The Indian Express

    It opens up a vast storehouse of information on the Bangalees and Banglaphiles at home and around the world

    2002, Bangladesh Quarterly, volumes 23-24, Department of Films & Publications, Government of Bangladesh., →LCCN, →OCLC, page 78

Origin

Translations

Bengali বাংলাপ্রেমী
  • বাংলাপ্রেমী (baṅlapremi)Translations
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