habiganj district
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
32
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
4
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
One of the four districts in the Sylhet Division of Bangladesh.
Etymology
Refers to the district of Habiganj, which is a transliteration of হবিগঞ্জ (hobigonj), a corruption of হবিবগঞ্জ (hobibogonj), ultimately a bilingual compound of Arabic حبيب (“beloved”) + Persian گنج (“treasury, store”), as the district was named after the local ruler Syed Habibuddin.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: حبيب, گنج