Dhaka

See also: dhaka and Dháka

English

Alternative forms

• Dacca (archaic), Dakka (dated), Decca (archaic)

Etymology

From Bengali ঢাকা (ḍhaka).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈdɑːkə/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdæːkə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (Bangladesh) IPA^(key): /ɖʱaka/, [ˈɖʱaka]
• Rhymes: -ækə
• Rhymes: -ɑːkə

Proper noun

Dhaka

1. The capital city of Bangladesh.
2. A district of Bangladesh, where the capital is located in.
3. A division of Bangladesh, where the district and the capital are located in.

Translations

capital of Bangladesh

• Afrikaans: Dhaka, Dakka
• Albanian: Dhaka
• Amharic: ዳካ (daka)
• Arabic: دَكَا f (dakā), دَاكَا (dākā)
• Armenian: Դաքա (Dakʻa)
• Assamese: ঢাকা (dhaka)
• Asturian: Dhaka (ast)
• Azerbaijani: Dəkkə
• Belarusian: Да́ка f (Dáka)
• Bengali: ঢাকা (bn) (ḍhaka)
• Bulgarian: Да́ка f (Dáka)
• Burmese: ဒါကာမြို့ (dakamrui.)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 達卡／达卡 (daat⁶ kaa¹)

  Mandarin: 達卡／达卡 (zh) (Dákǎ)

• Czech: Dháka (cs) f
• Danish: Dhaka
• Dhivehi: ޑާކާ (ḍākā)
• Dutch: Dhaka n
• Esperanto: Dako (eo)
• Estonian: Dhaka
• Finnish: Dhaka (fi), Dacca
• French: Dacca (fr) f, Dhaka (fr) f
• Georgian: დაკა (ka) (daḳa)
• German: Dhaka (de) n
• Greek: Ντάκα (el) f (Ntáka)
• Gujarati: ઢાકા (ḍhākā)
• Hebrew: דָּאקָה f (dáka)
• Hindi: ढाका (hi) m (ḍhākā)
• Hungarian: Dakka (hu)
• Icelandic: Dakka
• Italian: Dacca
• Japanese: ダッカ (ja) (Dakka)
• Kannada: ಢಾಕಾ (ḍhākā)
• Kazakh: Дакка (Dakka)
• Khmer: ឌាកា (km) (diəkaa)
• Korean: 다카 (Daka)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Daka

• Kyrgyz: Дакка (Dakka)
• Lao: ທາກາ (thā kā)
• Latvian: Daka f
• Lithuanian: Daka f
• Macedonian: Дака f (Daka)
• Malay: Dhaka
• Malayalam: ധാക്ക (dhākka), ഢാകാ (ḍhākā), ഢാക (ḍhāka​)
• Maltese: Daka
• Marathi: ढाका (ḍhākā)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Дакка (Dakka)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Dhaka

  Nynorsk: Dhaka

• Odia: ଢାକା (or) (ḍhākā)
• Pashto: ډاکه (ps) f (ḍāká)
• Persian: داکا (dâkâ)
• Polish: Dhaka (pl) f
• Portuguese: Daca f
• Punjabi: ਢਾਕਾ m (ḍhākā)
• Romanian: Dacca (ro)
• Russian: Да́кка (ru) f (Dákka)
• Sanskrit: ढक्क (sa) m (ḍhakka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Дхака f, Дака f

  Roman: Dhaka (sh) f, Daka f

• Sinhalese: ඪාකා (ḍhākā)
• Slovak: Dháka (sk) f
• Slovene: Daka f
• Spanish: Daca
• Swahili: Dhaka
• Tagalog: Dhaka
• Tajik: Дака (Daka)
• Tamil: டாக்கா (ṭākkā)
• Tatar: Дакка (Daqka)
• Telugu: ఢాకా (ḍhākā)
• Thai: ธากา (th) (taa-gaa)
• Tibetan: དྷ་ཁ (dha kha)
• Turkish: Dakka (tr)
• Turkmen: Dakka
• Ukrainian: Да́кка f (Dákka)
• Urdu: ڈھاکہ m (ḍhākā)
• Uyghur: داككا (dakka)
• Uzbek: Dakka
• Vietnamese: Đắc-ca
• Yiddish: דאַקאַ n (daka)

Afrikaans

Alternative forms

• Dakka

Proper noun

Dhaka

1. Dhaka (the capital city of Bangladesh)

Portuguese

Proper noun

Dhaka f

1. Alternative form of Daca