Delhi

Delhi

English

Etymology 1

Corrupted from Urdu دہلی‎ (dihlī, dehlī) and Hindi देहली (dehlī), from Classical Persian دهلی‎ (dihli), of uncertain origin. See Delhi § Toponym at Wikipedia. Compare Hindi दिल्ली (dillī).

Pronunciation

• (city in India):
  • IPA^(key): /ˈdɛl.i/

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  • Homophone: deli
  • Rhymes: -ɛli
• (locale in North America):
  • IPA^(key): /ˈdɛl.haɪ/

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  • Rhymes: -aɪ

Proper noun

Delhi within the Republic of India

Delhi

1. A megacity and union territory of India, containing the national capital New Delhi.
2. A locale in North America; named for the city in India.
   1. A census-designated place in Merced County, California.
   2. A town in Delaware County, New York.
   3. A village, the county seat of Delaware County, New York, located within the town of the same name.
   4. A community in Ontario.
   5. A town in Louisiana.
   6. A city in Iowa.
   7. A city in Minnesota.
   8. An unincorporatedcommunity in Illinois.
   9. An unincorporatedcommunity in Colorado.
   10. An unincorporatedcommunity in Georgia.
   11. An unincorporatedcommunity in Missouri.
   12. An unincorporatedcommunity in Texas.
   13. A ghost town in Wisconsin.

Synonyms

• National Capital Territory (formal)

Derived terms

• Delhi belly
• Delhian
• Delhiite
• Delhi Sultanate
• New Delhi

Descendants

• → Arabic: دِلْهِي‎ (dilhī)
• → Chinese: 德里 (Délǐ)
• → Greek: Δελχί (Delchí)
• → Hebrew: דֵלְהִי‎ (delhī)
• → Japanese: デリー (Derī)
• → Turkish: Delhi

Translations

city in India

Adyghe: Дели (Deelii) Amharic: ዴሊ (deli) Arabic: دِلْهِي‎ f (dilhī), دِهْلِي‎‎ f (dihlī) Armenian: Դելի (hy) (Deli) Assamese: দিল্লী (dilli) Belarusian: Дэ́лі m (Déli) Bengali: দিল্লি (bn) (dilli) Bhojpuri: दिल्ली (dillī) Bishnupriya Manipuri: দিল্লী (dillī) Brahui: Daelí Bulgarian: Де́лхи (Délhi) Burmese: ဒေလီမြို့ (deli-mrui.) Catalan: Delhi Chinese: Cantonese: 德里 (dak1 lei5) Mandarin: 德里 (zh) (Délǐ) Czech: Dillí (cs) n Danish: Delhi Dhivehi: ދިއްލީ‎ (dillī) Dutch: Delhi (nl) Estonian: Delhi Finnish: Delhi French: Delhi (fr) German: Delhi (de) Greek: Δελχί n (Delchí) Hebrew: דֵלְהִי‎ (dēlhī) Hindi: दिल्ली (hi) f (dillī), देहली (hi) f (dehlī) Hungarian: Delhi (hu) Indonesian: Delhi Italian: Delhi Japanese: デリー (Derī) Kannada: ದೆಹಲಿ (dehali), ದಿಲ್ಲಿ (dilli) Kashmiri: دِل‎‎ f (dil‎) Konkani: दिल्ली (dillī) Korean: 델리 (Delli) Latin: Dellium (la) (New Latin) Latvian: Deli Lithuanian: Delis m Macedonian: Делхи n (Delhi) Maithili: दिल्ली (dillī) Malayalam: ദില്ലി (ml) (dilli) Marathi: दिल्ली (dillī) Old Marathi: Devanagari: ढीली (ḍhīlī) Modi: 𑘛𑘲𑘩𑘲 (ḍhīlī) Nepali: दिल्ली (dillī) Newar: दिल्ली (dillī) Norwegian: Bokmål: Delhi Nynorsk: Delhi Oriya: ଦିଲ୍ଲୀ (or) (dilli) Ottoman Turkish: دهلی‎ (Dihli) Persian: دهلی‎ (dehli) Polish: Delhi (pl) Portuguese: Déli, Deli, Dheli Punjabi: Gurmukhi: ਦਿੱਲੀ (pa) (dillī) Shahmukhi: دِلِّی‎ (dillī) Prakrit: Maharastri Prakrit: 𑀠𑀺𑀮𑁆𑀮𑀻 (ḍhillī) Quechua: Dilhi Romanian: Delhi Russian: Де́ли (ru) m (Dɛ́li) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: Делхи m Roman: Delhi (sh) m Sinhalese: දිල්ලිය (dilliya) Slovak: Dillí n Slovene: Delhi Spanish: Delhi (es) Swedish: Delhi Tamil: தில்லி (ta) (tilli) Telugu: ఢిల్లీ (te) (ḍhillī) Thai: เดลี (dee-lii), ดิลลี Turkish: Delhi (tr) Turkmen: Deli Ukrainian: Де́лі m (Déli) Urdu: دہلی‎ f (dihlī), دِلّی‎ f (dillī) (mainly India)

See also

• (union territories) union territory; Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Chandigarh, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu, Delhi, Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh, Lakshadweep, Puducherry, ^{(Category: en:Union territories of India)}

Etymology 2

Mongolian Дэлхий (Delxii) / ᠳᠡᠯᠡᠬᠡᠢ (delekei̯).

Proper noun

Delhi

1. A county-level city in Haixi, Qinghai, China
   • 2008 July 28, “Floods leave two miners missing, two others trapped in northwest China”, in ReliefWeb‎, archived from the original on July 11, 2021‎:

     Another two counties, Wulan and Tianjun, as well as the two cities of Golmud and Delhi also suffered the floods. More than 1,000 heads of sheep were washed away.

Synonyms

• (from Mandarin Chinese) Delingha

Translations

county-level city

Chinese: Mandarin: 德令哈 (zh) (Délìnghā)

Anagrams

• Diehl, hidel, hidle, hield

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dêlxi/
• Hyphenation: Del‧hi

Proper noun

Dȅlhi m (Cyrillic spelling Де̏лхи)

1. Delhi (a megacity and union territory of India, containing the national capital New Delhi)

Declension

Declension of Delhi

	singular
nominative	Delhi
genitive	Delhija
dative	Delhiju
accusative	Delhi
vocative	Delhi
locative	Delhiju
instrumental	Delhijem

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Spanish

Proper noun

Delhi f

1. Delhi (a megacity and union territory of India, containing the national capital New Delhi)

Derived terms

• Nueva Delhi
• delhita