English
Etymology
Borrowed from Bengali সিলেট (śileṭ), from earlier Middle Bengali সিলহট, সিরহট (silhôṭ, sirhôṭ), itself a semi-learned borrowing from Sanskrit শ্রীহট্ট (śrīhaṭṭa, “Beautiful Market”).
Proper noun
Sylhet
- A city in Bangladesh.
Derived terms
Translations
a city in Bangladesh
- Arabic: سِلْهَت (silhat)
- Assamese: ছিলঠ (siloth)
- Bengali: সিলেট (bn) (śileṭ), সিলট (śiloṭ) (archaic), শিলহট (śilohoṭ) (archaic)
- Bishnupriya Manipuri: সিলট (silôṭ)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 錫爾赫特 / 锡尔赫特 (zh) (Xī'ěrhètè)
- Gujarati: સિલહટ (silhaṭ)
- Hindi: सिलेट (hi) (sileṭ), सिलहट (hi) (silhaṭ)
- Japanese: シレット (Shiretto)
- Korean: 실렛 (Sillet)
- Latin: Sirote
- Pashto: سلهټ (silhaṭ)
- Persian: سلهت (selhat), سرحت, سریحت
- Punjabi:
- Gurmukhi: ਸਿਲਹਟ m (silhaṭ)
- Shahmukhi: سِلْہَٹ m (silhaṭ)
- Russian: Си́лхет m (Sílxet)
- Urdu: سِلْہَٹ m (silhaṭ)
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