Secunderabad

English

Etymology

From Urdu سِکَنْدَر آباد (sikandar ābād) / Hindi सिकंदराबाद (sikandrābād), named after Sikander Jah. The spelling was likely influenced by Latin secundus.

Proper noun

Secunderabad

1. The twin city of Hyderabad in the Indian state of Telangana.
   • 1881, International Congress of Medicine, Transactions of the 1st, 2nd, 4th-17th Congress, page 541:

     It was my fate to commence my career in the medical service forty years ago in the presanitary days, long before the introduction of modern methods of diagnosis, at two of the most unhealthy stations in the whole of India — Bellary and Secunderabad.

Translations

Translations

• Gujarati: સિકંદરાબાદ (sikandrābād)
• Hindi: सिकंदराबाद (sikandrābād)
• Marathi: सिकंदराबाद (sikandrābād)
• Telugu: సికింద్రాబాద్ (sikindrābād)
• Urdu: سکندر آباد m (sikandar ābād)