English Explanatory Dictionary

Madaripur District

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. One of the thirteen districts in the Dhaka Division of Bangladesh.

Word forms

Madaripur District

Etymology

Named after the saint-preacher Shah Madar; thus ultimately a trilingual compound of Arabic مَدَار (madār, “orbit”) + Bengali -ঈ (-i, adjectival suffix) + Sanskrit पुर (pura, “fortress, town”). The Bengali suffix itself is influenced by both Sanskrit and Arabic

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