bungalow and Bengal

bungalow is borrowed from Hindi बंगला baṅgalā "of or belonging to Bengal". It is this Hindi word, or something close to it, that gives English Bengal. Hobson-Jobson explains that when one-story houses began to be built in India "these were called Banglā or 'Bengal-fashion' houses; that the name was adopted by the Europeans themselves and their followers, and so was brought back to Bengal itself, as well as carried to other parts of India."