Sylhet

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Bengali সিলেট (śileṭ), from earlier Middle Bengali সিলহট, সিরহট (silhôṭ, sirhôṭ), itself a semi-learned borrowing from Sanskrit শ্রীহট্ট (śrīhaṭṭa, “Beautiful Market”).

Proper noun

Sylhet

1. A city in Bangladesh.

Derived terms

• Sylhet lime
• Sylhet Trough

 

Translations

a city in Bangladesh

• Arabic: سِلْهَت (silhat)
• Assamese: ছিলঠ (siloth)
• Bengali: সিলেট (bn) (śileṭ), সিলট (śiloṭ) (archaic), শিলহট (śilohoṭ) (archaic)
• Bishnupriya Manipuri: সিলট (silôṭ)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 錫爾赫特／锡尔赫特 (zh) (Xī'ěrhètè)

• Gujarati: સિલહટ (silhaṭ)
• Hindi: सिलेट (hi) (sileṭ), सिलहट (hi) (silhaṭ)
• Japanese: シレット (Shiretto)
• Korean: 실렛 (Sillet)
• Latin: Sirote
• Pashto: سلهټ (silhaṭ)
• Persian: سلهت (selhat), سرحت, سریحت
• Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi: ਸਿਲਹਟ m (silhaṭ)

  Shahmukhi: سِلْہَٹ m (silhaṭ)

• Russian: Си́лхет m (Sílxet)
• Urdu: سِلْہَٹ m (silhaṭ)

Anagrams

• ethyls, Shelty, thyles, shelty, lythes