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bangda

bangda noun: a fish of the species Rastrelliger kanagurta.

bangda: a fish of the species Rastrelliger kanagurta
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Noun

bangda (plural bangdas)

  1. A fish of the species Rastrelliger kanagurta.
    • Those who plunge into the novel soon find themselves thrashing in a sea of words and sentences (“On Maganchand Road the thela-wallahs already had their fruit piled high, and the fishsellers were laying out bangda and bombil and paaplet on their slabs”) unencumbered by italics or explication.2007 January 7, Paul Gray, “Gangsta Raj”, in New York Times
    Synonyms:
    Indian mackerel

bangda meaning in Tamil, Marathi and Kannada

bangda in Tamil

நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும், மீன் இனங்களில் ஒன்றாகும்

bangda in Marathi

bangda; Indian mackerel
बांगडा bāṅgaḍā

bangda in Kannada

bangda, Indian mackerel
ಬಂಗಡೆ baṅgaḍe

Synonyms of bangda

Forms of bangda

pluralbangdas

Origin of bangda

Borrowed from Marathi बांगडा (bāṅgḍā).

Questions about bangda

What does bangda mean?
Bangda means a fish of the species Rastrelliger kanagurta.
What is bangda in Tamil?
Bangda in Tamil is நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும், மீன் இனங்களில் ஒன்றாகும். See Bangda meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is bangda?
Bangda is a noun.
What is the plural of bangda?
The plural of bangda is bangdas.

Words near bangda in the dictionary

  1. bangbelly
  2. bangbus
  3. bangbuses
  4. Bangco
  5. Bangcuangan
  6. bangda
  7. bangdas
  8. Bange
  9. banged
  10. banged a uey
  11. banged about

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: bangda (page history and authors); bangda (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); बांगडा (Marathi) (page history and authors); ಬಂಗಡೆ (Kannada) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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