Kolkata

See also: kolkata

English

Etymology

From Bengali কলকাতা (kôlkata); further etymology disputed. More on the Wikipedia page.

Pronunciation

• (Indian English) IPA^(key): /kɔlˈkaːta/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /kɒlˈkɑːtə/, /kɔːlˈkɑːtə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /koʊlˈkɑtə/

Proper noun

Kolkata

1. The capital city of West Bengal, India, formerly known in English as Calcutta.

Synonyms

• Calcutta (officially deprecated)

Translations

city

• Arabic: كَالْكُوتَا‎ f (kalkūtā), كَلْكَتَا‎ f (kalkatā)
• Armenian: Կալկաթա (hy) (Kalkatʿa)
• Assamese: কলকাতা (kolkata)
• Bengali: কলকাতা (bn) (kôlkata)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 加爾各答 (zh), 加尔各答 (zh) (Jiā'ěrgèdá)

• Czech: Kalkata (cs) f
• Dutch: Calcutta (nl) n
• Finnish: Kolkata
• German: Kalkutta (de)
• Gujarati: કોલકાતા (kolkātā)
• Hindi: कोलकाता (hi) (kolkātā), कलकत्ता (hi) m (kalkattā)
• Irish: Calcúta m

• Japanese: カルカッタ (Karukatta), コルカタ (Korukata)
• Kannada: ಕೊಲ್ಕತ್ತ (kn) (kolkatta)
• Korean: 캘커타 (Kaelkeota), 콜카타 (Kolkata)
• Macedonian: Колка́та f (Kolkáta), Калку́та f (Kalkúta)
• Malayalam: കൊൽക്കത്ത (kolkkatta)
• Marathi: कोलकाता (kolkātā)
• Oriya: କଲିକତା (or) (kôlikôta)
• Portuguese: Calcutá f
• Punjabi: ਕੋਲਕਾਤਾ (kolkātā)
• Russian: Кальку́тта (ru) f (Kalʹkútta), Ко́лката (ru) f (Kólkata)
• Spanish: Calcuta (es)
• Telugu: కోల్కత​ (kōlkata​)
• Urdu: کلکتہ‎ (kalkattā), کولکاتا‎ (kolkātā)

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Finnish

Etymology

From Bengali.

Proper noun

Kolkata

1. Kolkata (the capital city of West Bengal, India)

Usage notes

The former Finnish name Kalkutta is still widely used and is considered acceptable in Finnish.

Declension

Inflection of Kolkata (Kotus type 10/koira, no gradation)
nominative		Kolkata	—
genitive		Kolkatan	—
partitive		Kolkataa	—
illative		Kolkataan	—
		singular	plural
nominative		Kolkata	—
accusative	nom.	Kolkata	—
	gen.	Kolkatan
genitive		Kolkatan	—
partitive		Kolkataa	—
inessive		Kolkatassa	—
elative		Kolkatasta	—
illative		Kolkataan	—
adessive		Kolkatalla	—
ablative		Kolkatalta	—
allative		Kolkatalle	—
essive		Kolkatana	—
translative		Kolkataksi	—
instructive		—	—
abessive		Kolkatatta	—
comitative		—	—

Possessive forms of Kolkata (type koira)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	Kolkatani	Kolkatamme
2nd person	Kolkatasi	Kolkatanne
3rd person	Kolkatansa