madaripur district
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
2
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
One of the thirteen districts in the Dhaka Division of Bangladesh.
Etymology
Named after the saint-preacher Shah Madar; thus ultimately a trilingual compound of Arabic مَدَار (madār, “orbit”) + Bengali -ঈ (-i, adjectival suffix) + Sanskrit पुर (pura, “fortress, town”). The Bengali suffix itself is influenced by both Sanskrit and Arabic
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: مَدَار, -ঈ, पुर