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I don't speak or understand Bengali and can't read the written form either, but when looking it up on Google translate, I got the following result:

আম or Āma

which is similar to the Hindi/Urdu word Aam (आम in Devanagari script) (آم in Urdu script).

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Yes, which is still reasonably different to "mango".

In my first comment, I wrote:

>> Like chai vs tea, the two words (that I know of) are aam and mango.

I was referring to either aam or mango being a word that's common in many languages throughout the world, like chai and tea. So, আম or Āma is similar enough to Aam (आम or آم).

I think OP was saying that similar to the words Tea/Chai that originated from different parts of China and spread to the rest of the world, the words Aam (from Indo-Aryan) and Mango (from Dravidian) originated in different parts of India and spread to rest of the world.

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