Hyderabad

English

Alternative forms

• Haidarabad

Etymology

Borrowed from Hindi हैदराबाद (haidarābād) / Urdu حیدرآباد (haidarābād), from हैदर (haidar) / حیدر (haidar, “lion”) + -आबाद (-ābād) / آباد (ābād, “-ābād”, placename suffix). Named in honour of the Caliph Ali Ibn Abi Talib, nicknamed "Haidar" for his lion-like valour in battles.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhaɪdəɹəbɑːd/

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Proper noun

Hyderabad

1. The capital and largest city of Telangana, India.
2. A district of Telangana, India.
3. A former state, landlocked in south-central India, which was ruled from 1724 until 1948 by a line of nizams.
   • 2008, Britannica Concise Encyclopedia, →ISBN, page 916:

     At Indian partition in 1947, the nizam chose to resume Hyderabad's independent status, but India invaded the state (1948) and took control.

   • 1995, The Indian Political Science Review, volume 16, page 225:

     Maududi was born in 1903 at Aurangabad in Hyderabad, India, into a family with a long religious tradition.

4. A city in Sindh, Pakistan.

Translations

capital of Telangana

• Arabic: حَيْدَر أَبَاد m (ḥaydar ʔabād)
• Armenian: Հայդարաբադ (Haydarabad)
• Assamese: হাইদৰাবাদ (haidorabad)
• Bengali: হায়দ্রাবাদ (bn) (ḣaẏdrabad), হায়দরাবাদ (bn) (ḣaẏdorabad)
• Bulgarian: Хайдараба́д m (Hajdarabád), Хайдераба́д m (Hajderabád)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 海得拉巴 (Hǎidelābā), 海德拉巴 (zh) (Hǎidélābā)

• Farefare: Haidarabada
• Finnish: Hyderabad (fi)
• French: Hyderābād
• Georgian: ჰაიდარაბადი (haidarabadi)
• Gujarati: હૈદરાબાદ (haidarābād)
• Hebrew: היידראבאד
• Hindi: हैदराबाद (hi) (haidarābād)
• Hungarian: Haidarábád (hu)
• Japanese: ハイデラバード (Haiderabādo)
• Kannada: ಹೈದರಾಬಾದ್ (kn) (haidarābād)
• Khmer: ហ៊ី​ដឺ​រ៉ា​បេ​ដ (hiidəɨraabaed)
• Korean: 하이데라바드 (Haiderabadeu)
• Lithuanian: Haidarabadas m
• Malayalam: ഹൈദരാബാദ് (haidarābādŭ)
• Marathi: हैदराबाद (haidrābād)
• Odia: ହୈଦରାବାଦ (haidarābāda)
• Persian: حیدرآباد (heydar-âbâd)
• Portuguese: Hyderabad f, Hiderabade f
• Punjabi: ਹੈਦਰਾਬਾਦ m (haidrābād)
• Russian: Хайдараба́д (ru) m (Xajdarabád)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Хајдерабад m

  Roman: Hajderabad m

• Sindhi: حيدر آباد (haidarābād)
• Spanish: Hyderabad (es)
• Sylheti: ꠢꠣꠁꠖꠞꠣꠛꠣꠖ (haidrabad)
• Tamil: ஐதராபாத் (aitarāpāt), ஹைதரபாத்து (haitarapāttu)
• Telugu: హైదరాబాదు (haidarābādu)
• Turkish: Haydarabad
• Urdu: حیدر آباد (haidar ābād)
• Uyghur: ھەيدەرئاباد (heyder'abad)

city in Sindh, Pakistan

• Bulgarian: Хайдараба́д m (Hajdarabád)
• Lithuanian: Haidarabadas m
• Marathi: हैदराबाद (haidrābād)
• Sindhi: حيدرآباد
• Urdu: حیدرآباد

Portuguese

Proper noun

Hyderabad f

1. Alternative form of Hiderabade

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xaideɾaˈbad/ [xai̯.ð̞e.ɾaˈβ̞að̞]
• Rhymes: -ad
• Syllabification: Hy‧de‧ra‧bad

Proper noun

Hyderabad ?

1. The capital and largest city of Telangana, India.
2. Hyderabad (a district of Telangana, India)