List of English words of Bengali origin

Words of Bengali origin have entered other languages. Many words have been incorporated into Indian English. Some have thence been exported to the English language in general and thence to other languages.

As with other languages of the South Asia, the British Empire was responsible for the absorption of many of these loanwords into English. Also the use of Bengali as a significant literary language, and Rabindranath Tagore's Nobel prize gave the language extra prestige.

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