Varanasi

See also: Váránasí

English

The city of Varanasi as seen from the river Ganges

Varanasi district

Varanasi division

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit वाराणसी (vārāṇasī).

Proper noun

Varanasi

1. A large city, district, and division of Uttar Pradesh, India.
   • 2023, Devika Rege, Quarterlife, Dialogue Books (2025), page 389:

     On either side of the roof, Varanasi stretched out in an arc, its sandstone walls catching the light until they shone a rich sepia gold.

   • 2024 September 8, Kamala Thiagarajan, “Women who are blind play a critical role in identifying possible breast cancers”, in NPR‎^[1]:

     Introduced in India in 2017, the program is now part of major hospitals in key Indian cities: Bengaluru, Varanasi, Gurugram and Delhi.

Synonyms

• Banaras
• Benares
• Kashi

Translations

city in India

• Burmese: ဝါရာဏသီ (warana.si)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 瓦拉納西 / 瓦拉纳西 (Wǎlānàxī)

• Czech: Váránasí n
• Dzongkha: ཝཱ་རཱ་ཎ་སཱི (wā rā ṇa sī)
• French: Bénarès (fr) m
• Hindi: वाराणसी (hi) f (vārāṇsī), बनारस (hi) f (banāras)
• Japanese: ワーラーナシー (Wārānashī)
• Korean: 바라나시 (Baranasi)
• Malayalam: വാരാണസി (ml) (vārāṇasi), ബനാറസ് (banāṟasŭ)
• Marathi: वाराणसी n (vārāṇsī)
• Odia: ବନାରସ (or) (banārasa), ବାରାଣସୀ (or) (bārāṇasi)
• Persian: بنارس (banâras), وارانسی (vârânasi)
• Portuguese: Varanasi, ^{(please verify)} Varanássi
• Russian: Варана́си m (Varanási), Банарас m (Banaras), Бенарес (Benares)
• Sanskrit: वाराणसी (sa) f (vārāṇasī)
• Spanish: Benarés (es) m, Varanasi
• Tamil: காசி (ta) (kāci), வாரணவாசி (vāraṇavāci), வாரணசி (vāraṇaci), வாரணாசி (ta) (vāraṇāci)
• Telugu: వారణాసి (te) (vāraṇāsi)
• Thai: พาราณสี (paaraannásĕe), วาราณสี (waaraanásĕe)
• Urdu: بنارس (banāras), کاشی (kāśī), وارانسی (vārāṇasī)

See also

districts of Uttar Pradesh, Indiaedit

• Agra
• Aligarh
• Amethi
• Amroha
• Auraiya
• Ayodhya
• Azamgarh
• Baghpat
• Bahraich
• Ballia
• Balrampur
• Banda
• Barabanki
• Basti
• Bhadohi
• Bijnor
• Budaun
• Bulandshahr
• Chandauli
• Chitrakoot
• Deoria
• Etah
• Etawah
• Farrukhabad
• Fatehpur
• Firozabad
• Gautam Buddha Nagar
• Ghaziabad
• Ghazipur
• Gonda
• Gorakhpur
• Hamirpur
• Hapur
• Hardoi
• Hathras
• Jalaun
• Jaunpur
• Jhansi
• Kannauj
• Kanpur
• Kanpur Dehat
• Kasganj
• Kaushambi
• Kushinagar
• Lakhimpur Kheri
• Lalitpur
• Lucknow
• Maharajganj
• Mahoba
• Mainpuri
• Mathura
• Mau
• Meerut
• Mirzapur
• Moradabad
• Muzaffarnagar
• Pilibhit
• Pratapgarh
• Prayagraj
• Raebareli
• Rampur
• Saharanpur
• Sambhal
• Sant Kabir Nagar
• Shahjahanpur
• Shamli
• Shravasti
• Siddharthnagar
• Sitapur
• Sonbhadra
• Sultanpur
• Unnao
• Varanasi

divisions of Uttar Pradesh, India: Divisions of Uttar Pradeshedit

• Agra
• Aligarh
• Ayodhya
• Azamgarh
• Bareilly
• Basti
• Chitrakoot
• Devipatan
• Gorakhpur
• Jhansi
• Kanpur
• Lucknow
• Meerut
• Mirzapur
• Moradabad
• Prayagraj
• Saharanpur
• Varanasi

Anagrams

• Avarians, Vasarian

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit वाराणसी (vārāṇasī)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baɾaˈnasi/ [ba.ɾaˈna.si]
• Rhymes: -asi
• Syllabification: Va‧ra‧na‧si

Proper noun

Varanasi ?

1. (proscribed) synonym of Benarés (“Varanasi”)

See also

• Benarés