Dhaka

See also: dhaka and Dháka

English

Alternative forms

Dakka (dated)
Dacca, Decca (archaic)

Etymology

From Bengali ঢাকা (ḍhaka).

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈdæ.kə/
(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈdɑː.kə/
(Indic) IPA^(key): /ˈɖʱɑ.kɑ/, [ɖʱäː.käˑ]
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Rhymes: -ækə, -ɑːkə
Hyphenation: Dha‧ka
Homophone: (cot–caught merger, non-rhotic) docker

Proper noun

Dhaka

The capital city of Bangladesh.
A district of Bangladesh, where the capital is located in.
A division of Bangladesh, where the district and the capital are located in.

Translations

capital of Bangladesh

Afrikaans: Dhaka, Dakka
Albanian: Dhaka
Amharic: ዳካ (daka)
Arabic: دَكَا f (dakā), دَاكَا (dākā)
Armenian: Դաքա (Dakʻa)
Assamese: ঢাকা (dhaka)
Asturian: Dhaka (ast)
Azerbaijani: Dəkkə
Belarusian: Да́ка f (Dáka)
Bengali: ঢাকা (bn) (ḍhaka)
Bulgarian: Да́ка f (Dáka)
Burmese: ဒါကာ မြို့ (dakamrui.)
Cherokee: ᏓᎧ (daka)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 達卡 / 达卡 (daat⁶ kaa¹)

Mandarin: 達卡 / 达卡 (zh) (Dákǎ)
Czech: Dháka (cs) f
Danish: Dhaka
Dhivehi: ޑާކާ (ḍākā)
Dutch: Dhaka n
Esperanto: Dako (eo)
Estonian: Dhaka
Finnish: Dhaka (fi), Dacca
French: Dacca (fr) f, Dhaka (fr) f
Georgian: დაკა (ka) (daḳa)
German: Dhaka (de) n
Greek: Ντάκα (el) f (Ntáka)
Gujarati: ઢાકા (ḍhākā)
Hebrew: דָּאקָה f (dáka)
Hindi: ढाका (hi) m (ḍhākā)
Hungarian: Dakka (hu)
Icelandic: Dakka
Italian: Dacca
Japanese: ダッカ (ja) (Dakka)
Kannada: ಢಾಕಾ (ḍhākā)
Kazakh: Дакка (Dakka)
Khmer: ឌាកា (km) (diəkaa)
Korean: 다카 (Daka)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: Daka
Kyrgyz: Дакка (Dakka)
Lao: ທາກາ (thā kā)
Latvian: Daka f
Lithuanian: Daka f
Macedonian: Дака f (Daka)
Malay: Dhaka
Malayalam: ധാക്ക (dhākka), ഢാകാ (ḍhākā), ഢാക (ḍhāka)
Maltese: Daka
Marathi: ढाका (ḍhākā)
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: Дакка (Dakka)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: Dhaka

Nynorsk: Dhaka
Odia: ଢାକା (or) (ḍhākā)
Pashto: ډاکه (ps) f (ḍāká)
Persian: داکا (dâkâ)
Polish: Dhaka (pl) f
Portuguese: Daca f
Punjabi: ਢਾਕਾ m (ḍhākā)
Romanian: Dacca (ro)
Russian: Да́кка (ru) f (Dákka)
Sanskrit: ढक्क (sa) m (ḍhakka)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: Дхака f, Дака f

Latin: Dhaka (sh) f, Daka f
Sinhalese: ඪාකා (ḍhākā)
Slovak: Dháka (sk) f
Slovene: Daka f
Spanish: Daca
Swahili: Dhaka
Tagalog: Dhaka
Tajik: Дака (Daka)
Tamil: டாக்கா (ṭākkā)
Tatar: Дакка (Daqqa)
Telugu: ఢాకా (ḍhākā)
Thai: ธากา (th) (taa-gaa)
Tibetan: དྷ་ཁ (dha kha)
Turkish: Dakka (tr)
Turkmen: Dakka
Ukrainian: Да́кка f (Dákka)
Urdu: ڈھاکہ m (ḍhākā)
Uyghur: داككا (dakka)
Uzbek: Dakka
Vietnamese: Đắc-ca
Yiddish: דאַקאַ n (daka)

Afrikaans

Alternative forms

Dakka

Proper noun

Dhaka

Dhaka (the capital city of Bangladesh)

Polish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈda.ka/
Audio: (file)
Rhymes: -aka
Syllabification: Dha‧ka

Proper noun

Dhaka f (related adjective dhakijski)

Dhaka (the capital city of Bangladesh)

Declension

Declension of Dhaka

	singular
nominative	Dhaka
genitive	Dhaki
dative	Dhace
accusative	Dhakę
instrumental	Dhaką
locative	Dhace
vocative	Dhako

Derived terms

nouns

dhakijczyk
dhakijka

References

Dhaka in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Proper noun

Dhaka f

alternative form of Daca