Maulvibazar District

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. One of the four districts in the Sylhet Division of Bangladesh.

Word forms

Maulvibazar District

Etymology

Named after the maulvi Syed Qudratullah; thus ultimately a bilingual compound of Arabic مَوْلَوِيّ (mawlawiyy, “maulvi, master”) + Bengali বাজার (bajar, “bazar, market”).

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