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This growth can be attributed to a mixture of successful editathons and the arrival of many prolific contributors. The Bengali Wikipedia now has 164,093 articles on various topics with 1,486 active editors per month. As of January 2019, Bengali Wikipedia is the only online free encyclopedia written in the Bengali language.
Success is the state or condition of meeting a defined range of expectations. It may be viewed as the opposite of failure. The criteria for success depend on context ...
Bengali is typically thought to have around 100,000 separate words, of which 16,000 (16%) are considered to be তদ্ভব tôdbhôbô, or Tadbhava (inherited Indo-Aryan vocabulary), 40,000 (40%) are তৎসম tôtśômô or Tatsama (words directly borrowed from Sanskrit), and borrowings from দেশী deśi, or "indigenous" words, which are at around 16,000 (16%) of the Bengali ...
Bengali, [a] also known by its endonym Bangla (বাংলা, Bāṅlā, ⓘ), is a classical Indo-Aryan language from the Indo-European language family native to the Bengal region of South Asia.
Bangla (drink), an alcoholic drink from West Bengal; Bangla, a 2019 Italian film; Bangla - La serie, a 2022 Italian television series; Bangla, Nepal; Dak Bangla or bangla, originally referring to a bungalow, used to mean "a house in the Bengali style".bangla, the secondary Internet country code top-level domain for Bangladesh
One of the most well-known Bengali actresses was Sharmila Tagore, who debuted in Ray's The World of Apu, and became a major actress in Bengali cinema as well as Bollywood. Despite Suchitra Sen being the greatest actress, Sharmila was the most commercially successful actress in history with films like The World of Apu (1959), Devi (1960), Nayak ...
Bengali punctuation marks, apart from the downstroke দাড়ি dari (।), the Bengali equivalent of a full stop, have been adopted from western scripts and their usage is similar: Commas, semicolons, colons, quotation marks, etc. are the same as in English. Capital letters are absent in the Bengali script so proper names are unmarked.
Razakars were a Bengali paramilitary force during the Bangladesh Liberation War which collaborated with the Pakistani forces to halt the independence of Bangladesh. In modern-day Bangladesh, the term razakar is used as a pejorative, meaning "traitor" or "collaborator", similar to the usage of "Quisling" in the Western World. [368]