Dhaka

See also: dhaka and Dháka

English

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

From Bengali ঢাকা (ḍhaka).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈdæ.kə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈdɑː.kə/
• (Indic) IPA^(key): /ˈɖʱɑ.kɑ/, [ɖʱäː.käˑ]

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ækə, -ɑːkə
• Hyphenation: Dha‧ka
• Homophone: (cot–caught merger, non-rhotic) docker

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.)
• Cherokee: ᏓᎧ (daka)
• 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

  Latin: 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 (Daqqa)
• 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)

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈda.ka/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aka
• Syllabification: Dha‧ka

Proper noun

Dhaka f (related adjective dhakijski)

1. Dhaka (the capital city of Bangladesh)

Declension

Declension of Dhaka

	singular
nominative	Dhaka
genitive	Dhaki
dative	Dhace
accusative	Dhakę
instrumental	Dhaką
locative	Dhace
vocative	Dhako

Derived terms

nouns

• dhakijczyk
• dhakijka

References

• Dhaka in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Proper noun

Dhaka f

1. alternative form of Daca