Hyderabad

Hyderabad

English

Alternative forms

• Haidarabad

Etymology

Borrowed from Urdu حیدر آباد‎ (haidar ābād), حیدر‎ (haidar, “lion”) + آباد‎ (“-ābād”, placename suffix). Named in honour of the Caliph Ali Ibn Abi Talib, nicknamed "Haidar" for his lion-like valour in battles.[1]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhaɪdəɹəbɑːd/

Proper noun

Hyderabad

1. The capital and largest city of Telangana, India, and de-jure capital of Andhra Pradesh.
2. A district of Telangana, India.
3. A former state, landlocked in south-central India, which was ruled from 1724 until 1948 by a line of nizams.
   • 2008, Britannica Concise Encyclopedia, →ISBN, page 916:

     At Indian partition in 1947, the nizam chose to resume Hyderabad's independent status, but India invaded the state (1948) and took control.

   • 1995, The Indian Political Science Review, volume 16, page 225:

     Maududi was born in 1903 at Aurangabad in Hyderabad, India, into a family with a long religious tradition.

4. A city in Sindh, Pakistan.

Translations

capital of Telangana

Arabic: حَيْدَر أَبَاد‎ m (ḥaydar ʾabād) Armenian: Հայդարաբադ (Haydarabad) Assamese: হাইদৰাবাদ (haidorabad) Bengali: হায়দরাবাদ (bn) (haydôrabad), হায়দ্রাবাদ (bn) (hayôdrabad) Chinese: Mandarin: 海得拉巴 (Hǎidelābā) Farefare: Haidarabada Finnish: Hyderabad (fi) French: Hyderābād Georgian: ჰაიდარაბადი (haidarabadi) Gujarati: હૈદરાબાદ (haidarābād) Hebrew: היידראבאד‎ Hindi: हैदराबाद (hi) (haidarābād) Hungarian: Haidarábád (hu) Japanese: ハイデラバード (Haiderabādo) Kannada: ಹೈದರಾಬಾದ್ (kn) (haidarābād) Khmer: ហ៊ី​ដឺ​រ៉ា​បេ​ដ (hiidəɨraabaed) Korean: 하이데라바드 (Haiderabadeu) Malayalam: ഹൈദരാബാദ് (haidarābādŭ) Oriya: ହୈଦରାବାଦ (hôidôrabadô) Persian: حیدرآباد‎ (heydar-âbâd) Portuguese: Hyderabad f, Hiderabade f Punjabi: ਹੈਦਰਾਬਾਦ m (haidrābād) Russian: Хайдараба́д (ru) m (Xajdarabád) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: Хајдерабад m Roman: Hajderabad m Sindhi: حيدر آباد‎ (haidarābād) Spanish: Hyderabad (es) Sylheti: ꠢꠣꠁꠖꠞꠣꠛꠣꠖ (haidrabad) Tamil: ஐதராபாத் (aitarāpāt) Telugu: హైదరాబాదు (haidarābādu) Turkish: Haydarabad Urdu: حیدر آباد‎ (haidar ābād) Uyghur: ھەيدەرئاباد‎ (heyder'abad)

References

1. Everett-Heath, John. Concise Dictionary of World Place Names, Oxford University Press, 2005 p 223 (→ISBN)

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Portuguese

Proper noun

Hyderabad f

1. Alternative form of Hiderabade

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Spanish

Proper noun

Hyderabad ?

1. Hyderabad (the capital and largest city of Telangana, India, and de-jure capital of Andhra Pradesh)
2. Hyderabad (a district of Telangana, India)