English Explanatory Dictionary

Shariatpur District

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Word forms

Shariatpur District

Etymology

Refers to the district of Shariatpur, a transliteration of শরীয়তপুর, ultimately a bilingual compound of Arabic شَرِيعَة (šarīʕa, “law, shari'a”) + Bengali পুর (pura, “city”), named in honor of Haji Shariatullah.

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