Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

dbkl

/di.biˈkej.el/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.17 in modern English

Syllables: dbkl
IPA: /di.biˈkej.el/

11

Scrabble Score

4

Letters

1

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

Kuala Lumpur City Hall, the city council that governs the city of Kuala Lumpur.

Example Sentences

"Certainly, this was in part due to my own position as a foreign researcher seeking information, and it is safe to say I was able to gain greater access to DBKL officials than that afforded to Brickfields residents. Nonetheless, despite the relative failure of my attempts to gain empirical information from these officials regarding ongoing development projects in Brickfields,[…]"
"... DBKL and the first construction works commenced in 2015 (Kozlowski 2015). In 2015 DBKL endorsed the Urban Design Guidelines for Central Kuala Lumpur which includes an entire section on heritage guidelines. These heritage guidelines for[…]"

Etymology

Borrowed from Malay DBKL, from initialism of Dewan Bandaraya Kuala Lumpur.

Questions

How do you pronounce dbkl?: The recorded pronunciation is /di.biˈkej.el/.
What does dbkl mean?: Kuala Lumpur City Hall, the city council that governs the city of Kuala Lumpur.
Where does dbkl come from?: Borrowed from Malay DBKL, from initialism of Dewan Bandaraya Kuala Lumpur.

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