Baghdad

English

Alternative forms

• Bagdad, Bagdat

Etymology

From Arabic بَغْدَاد (baḡdād), from Classical Persian بغداد (bağdād) (see there for more).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bæɡˈdæd/, /ˈbæɡdæd/

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• Rhymes: -æd

Proper noun

Baghdad

1. The capital of and largest city in Iraq, situated in the center of the country on the Tigris river; a historical center of the Muslim world.
2. A governorate of Iraq.

Derived terms

• Baghdad Bob
• Baghdad boil
• Baghdad by the Bay
• Baghdadi
• Baghdadian

Related terms

• Bagadates

Translations

city

• Adyghe: Багдад (Baɣdad)
• Afrikaans: Bagdad
• Albanian: Bagdadi m, Bagdad m (indefinite)
• Amharic: ባግዳድ (bagdad)
• Arabic: بَغْدَاد (ar) f (baḡdād)
• Aramaic:

  Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܒܲܓ݂ܕܵܕ (baḡdād)

  Classical Syriac: ܒܓܕܕ (bagdad)

• Armenian: Բաղդադ (hy) (Baġdad)
• Assamese: বাগদাদ (bagodad), বাগ্দাদ (bagdad)
• Avar: Багъдад (Bağdad)
• Azerbaijani: Bağdad (az)

  Arabic: بغداد (az)

  Cyrillic: Бағдад (az)

• Bengali: বাগদাদ (bagodad), বগদাদ (bogodad)
• Bulgarian: Багда́д m (Bagdád)
• Burmese: ဘဂ္ဂဒက်မြို့ (bhagga.dakmrui.)
• Catalan: Bagdad
• Chechen: Багӏдад (Bağdad)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 巴格達／巴格达 (baa¹ gaak³ daat⁶)

  Mandarin: 巴格達／巴格达 (zh) (Bāgédá)

• Chuvash: Пахтат (Pahtat)
• Coptic: ⲃⲁⲕⲧⲁⲛ m (baktan)
• Czech: Bagdád (cs) m
• Danish: Bagdad n
• Dhivehi: ބަޣުދާދު (baġudādu)
• Dutch: Bagdad (nl) n
• Esperanto: Bagdado (eo)
• Estonian: Bagdad (et)
• Faroese: Bagdad
• Finnish: Bagdad (fi)
• French: Bagdad (fr) m
• Georgian: ბაღდადი (ka) (baɣdadi)
• German: Bagdad (de) n
• Greek: Βαγδάτη (el) f (Vagdáti)

  Ancient: Βαγδάδ n (Bagdád)

• Gujarati: બગદાદ (bagdād)
• Hausa: Bàgàdāzà f
• Hebrew: בַּגְדַּאדּ \ בַּגְדָּד (he) f (bagdád)
• Hindi: बग़दाद (baġdād), बगदाद m (bagdād)
• Hungarian: Bagdad (hu)
• Icelandic: Bagdad
• Indonesian: Bagdad
• Irish: Bagdad m
• Italian: Bagdad f, Baghdad (it) f
• Japanese: バグダード (ja) (Bagudādo), バグダッド (ja) (Bagudaddo)
• Kannada: ಬಾಗ್ದಾದ್ (kn) (bāgdād)
• Kazakh: Бағдат (Bağdat)
• Khmer: បាកដាដ (km) (baakdaat), បាដាដ (baadaat)
• Korean: 바그다드 (Bageudadeu)
• Kumyk: Багъдад (Bağdad)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: بەغدا (beẍda), بەغا (beẍa), بەغداد (ckb) (beẍdad)

  Northern Kurdish: Bexda (ku) f, Bexdad (ku)

• Kyrgyz: Багдад (Bagdad), Багдат (Bagdat)
• Lao: ບາກດາດ (bāk dāt)
• Latin: Bagdadum n, Bagdatum (la) n, Bagdetia f (New Latin)
• Latvian: Bagdāde (lv) f
• Lezgi: Багъдад (Baġdad)
• Lithuanian: Bagdadas m
• Macedonian: Багда́д m (Bagdád)
• Malay: Baghdad
• Malayalam: ബാഗ്ദാദ് (bāgdādŭ), ബഘ്ദാദ് (baghdādŭ)
• Maltese: Bagdad
• Maranao: Bogdad
• Marathi: बगदाद (bagdād)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Багдад (Bagdad)

• Navajo: Báhdaʼ
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Bagdad

  Nynorsk: Bagdad

• Odia: ବାଗଦାଦ (bagôdadô)
• Old East Slavic: Багдадъ m (Bagdadŭ)
• Ossetian: Багдад (Bagdad)
• Ottoman Turkish: بغداد (Bağdad)
• Pashto: بغداد (ps) m (baǧdad)
• Persian: بغداد (fa) (bağdâd)
• Polish: Bagdad (pl) m
• Portuguese: Bagdá (Brazil), Bagdade (pt) (Portugal)
• Punjabi: ਬਗ਼ਦਾਦ (baġdād)
• Romanian: Bagdad (ro)
• Russian: Багда́д (ru) m (Bagdád)
• Sanskrit: ^{(please verify)} भगदत्त (sa) (bhagadatta)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Ба̀гда̄д m

  Roman: Bàgdād (sh) m

• Sindhi: بغداد m
• Sinhalese: බැග්ඩෑඩ් (bægḍǣḍ)
• Slovak: Bagdad (sk) m
• Slovene: Bagdad m
• Spanish: Bagdad (es)
• Swedish: Bagdad (sv) n
• Tajik: Бағдод (tg) (Baġdod)
• Tamil: பாக்தாத் (pāktāt), பகுதாது (pakutātu)
• Tatar: Багдад (Bağdad)
• Telugu: బాగ్దాదు (bāgdādu), బాగ్దాద్ (bāgdād)
• Thai: แบกแดด (th) (bɛ̀ɛk-dɛ̀ɛt)
• Tibetan: པ་ག་ཏ (pa ga ta)
• Turkish: Bağdat (tr)
• Turkmen: Bagdat
• Ukrainian: Багда́д m (Bahdád)
• Urdu: بغداد m (baġdād)
• Uyghur: باغداد (baghdad)
• Uzbek: Bagʻdod
• Vietnamese: Bát-đa, Bác Đạt
• Yiddish: באַגדאַד n (bagdad)
• Zazaki: Beğdad