بمبئی

Persian

Alternative forms

• بَمبَیی (bambayi)

Pronunciation

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [bæm.bæ.ʔiː]

Readings
Iranian reading?	bamba'i

Proper noun

Dari	مُمبَی
Iranian Persian	بَمبئی
Tajik	Мумбай

بمبئی • (bamba'ī)

1. Mumbai (a megacity, the capital of Maharashtra, India, also known as Bombay)

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese Bombaim.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /bəm.bə.iː/
• Rhymes: -iː

Proper noun

بَمْبَئی • (bambaī) f (Hindi spelling बंबई)

1. Bombay (former name of Mumbai, a megacity, the capital of Maharashtra, India)

Synonyms

• مُمْبَئی (mumbaī)

Further reading

• Platts, John T. (1884), “بمبئي”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 167
• “بمبئی”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• “بمبئی”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.