How to Say “Banana” in Bengali
The Bengali word for banana is কলা. The term is used to refer to the fruit of the banana plant.
About Bengali
Bengali, Bangla in the language itself, is the national language of Bangladesh and an official language of the Indian states of West Bengal and Tripura, with about 240 million native speakers. It is one of the most spoken languages in the world and has a long literary tradition, including the work of Rabindranath Tagore.
Bengali has three words for "you". Use apni with strangers and older people, tumi with friends and family and tui only with very close friends or children. It is written in its own script, the Bengali script, which runs left to right with a line along the top of each word. In many Latin spellings the short vowel written a sounds close to the o in "hot".
| Family | Indo-European, Indo-Aryan |
|---|---|
| Native speakers | about 240 million (2015) |
| Second-language speakers | about 19 million (2011) |
| Official in | Bangladesh, India (West Bengal, Tripura) |
| Script | Bengali script |
| Codes | bn (ISO 639-1), ben (ISO 639-3) |
Speaker numbers: Ethnologue (2015 and 2011), via Wikidata. Retrieved 26 September 2026.
How to Say “Shut Up” in Bengali
The English phrase “shut up” is translated into Bengali as চুপ কর. The phrase is used as an imperative to tell someone to stop talking.
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To say congratulations in Bengali, use অভিনন্দন (obhinondon), the standard word for congratulating someone. অভিনন্দন works on its own as an exclamation.
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The English phrase ‘grandma’ is translated into Bengali as দিদিমা.
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