English Explanatory Dictionary

Sunamganj District

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Word forms

Sunamganj District

Etymology

Named in honor of a soldier called Sunam Uddin; thus ultimately a bilingual compound of Bengali সুনাম (śunam, “fame, reputation”) + Persian گنج (“treasury, store”); the first element is a compound of সু- (su-, “good”) + নাম (nam, “name”).

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