Delhi

English

Etymology 1

Corrupted from Hindustani دہلی (dihlī, dêhli) / देहली (dehlī), of uncertain origin. See Delhi § Toponym at Wikipedia. Compare Hindi दिल्ली (dillī).

Pronunciation

• (city in India):
  • IPA^(key): /ˈdɛl.i/

    • Audio (Southern England):

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    • Audio (US):

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  • Homophone: deli
  • Rhymes: -ɛli

Proper noun

Delhi within the Republic of India

Delhi

2. A megacity and union territory of India, containing the national capital New Delhi.

Synonyms

• National Capital Territory (formal)

Derived terms

• Delhi belly
• Delhian
• Delhiite
• Delhi Sultanate
• New Delhi

Descendants

• → Arabic: دِلْهِي (dilhī)
• → Chinese: 德里 (Délǐ)
• → Greek: Δελχί (Delchí)
• → Hebrew: דֵלְהִי (delhī)
• → Japanese: デリー (Derī)
• → Turkish: Delhi

Translations

city in India

• Adyghe: Дели (Deli)
• Albanian: Delhi
• Amharic: ዴሊ (deli)
• Arabic: دِهْلِي f (dihlī), دِلْهِي f (dilhī)
• Armenian: Դելի (hy) (Deli)
• Assamese: দিল্লী (dilli)
• Azerbaijani: Dehli
• Belarusian: Дэ́лі m (Déli)
• Bengali: দিল্লি (bn) (dilli)
• Bhojpuri: दिल्ली (dillī)
• Bishnupriya Manipuri: দিল্লী (dillī)
• Brahui: Daelí
• Bulgarian: Де́лхи m (Délhi)
• Burmese: ဒေလီမြို့ (delimrui.)
• Catalan: Delhi
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 德里 (dak¹ lei⁵)

  Mandarin: 德里 (zh) (Délǐ)

• Czech: Dillí (cs) n
• Danish: Delhi n
• Dhivehi: ދިއްލީ (dillī)
• Dutch: Delhi (nl)
• Estonian: Delhi
• Finnish: Delhi
• French: Delhi (fr)
• Georgian: დელი (deli)
• German: Delhi (de)
• Greek: Δελχί n (Delchí)
• Hebrew: דֵלְהִי f (delhi)
• Hindi: दिल्ली (hi) f (dillī), देहली (hi) f (dehlī)
• Hungarian: Delhi (hu)
• Icelandic: Delí
• Indonesian: Delhi
• Italian: Delhi
• Japanese: デリー (ja) (Derī)
• Kannada: ದೆಹಲಿ (dehali), ದಿಲ್ಲಿ (dilli)
• Kashmiri: دِل f (dil)
• Kazakh: Дели (Deli)
• Khmer: ដេលី (deelii), ដេលហ៊ី (deelhii)
• Konkani: दिल्ली (dillī)
• Korean: 델리 (Delli)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Delhî

• Kyrgyz: Дели (Deli)
• Lao: ເດລີ (dē lī)
• Latin: Dellium (la) (New Latin)
• Latvian: Deli
• Lithuanian: Delis m
• Macedonian: Делхи n (Delhi)
• Maithili: दिल्ली (dillī)
• Malay: Delhi
• Malayalam: ദില്ലി (ml) (dilli)
• Marathi: दिल्ली (dillī)

  Old Marathi:

  Devanagari: ढीली (ḍhīlī)

  Modi: 𑘛𑘲𑘩𑘲 (ḍhīlī)

• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Дели (Deli)

• Nepali: दिल्ली (dillī)
• Newar: दिल्ली (dillī)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Delhi n

  Nynorsk: Delhi n

• Odia: ଦିଲ୍ଲୀ (or) (dilli)
• Ottoman Turkish: دهلی (Dihli)
• Pashto: ډیلي, دهلي
• Persian: دِهْلی (dehli)
• Polish: Delhi (pl)
• Portuguese: Déli, Deli, Dheli
• Prakrit:

  Maharastri Prakrit: 𑀠𑀺𑀮𑁆𑀮𑀻 (ḍhillī)

• Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi: ਦਿੱਲੀ (pa) (dillī)

  Shahmukhi: دِلِّی (dilliī)

• Quechua: Dilhi
• Romanian: Delhi
• Russian: Де́ли (ru) m (Dɛ́li)
• Santali: ᱫᱤᱞᱞᱤ (dilli)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Де̏лхи m

  Roman: Dȅlhi (sh) m

• Sinhalese: දිල්ලිය (dilliya)
• Slovak: Dillí n
• Slovene: Delhi n
• Spanish: Delhi (es) f
• Swedish: Delhi n
• Tajik: Деҳлӣ (Dehli)
• Tamil: தில்லி (ta) (tilli)
• Tatar: Дәһли (Dähli), Дели (Deli)
• Telugu: ఢిల్లీ (te) (ḍhillī)
• Thai: เดลี (dee-lii), ดิลลี
• Turkish: Delhi (tr)
• Turkmen: Deli
• Ukrainian: Де́лі m (Déli)
• Urdu: دِہْلی f (dihlī), دِلّی f (dillī) (mainly India)
• Uyghur: دېھلى (dëhli)
• Uzbek: Dehli
• Vietnamese: Đê-li

See also

• (union territories) union territory; Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Chandigarh, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu, Delhi, Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh, Lakshadweep, Puducherry, ^{(Category: en:Union territories of India)}

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Delhi”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[1], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 990-991

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• (locale in North America):
  • IPA^(key): /ˈdɛl.haɪ/

  • Audio (Southern England):

    (file)

  • Rhymes: -aɪ

Proper noun

Delhi

1. A locale in North America; named for the city in India.
   1. A census-designated place in Merced County, California.
   2. A town in Delaware County, New York.
   3. A village, the county seat of Delaware County, New York, located within the town of the same name.
   4. A community of Ontario.
   5. A town in Louisiana.
   6. A city in Iowa.
   7. A city in Minnesota.
   8. An unincorporated community in Illinois.
   9. An unincorporated community in Colorado.
   10. An unincorporated community in Georgia.
   11. An unincorporated community in Missouri.
   12. An unincorporated community in Texas.
   13. A ghost town in Wisconsin.
   14. A community of Norfolk County, Ontario, Canada.

Etymology 3

From Mongolian Дэлхий (Delxii) / ᠳᠡᠯᠡᠬᠡᠢ (delekei).

Proper noun

Delhi

1. Synonym of Delingha
   • 2008 July 28, “Floods leave two miners missing, two others trapped in northwest China”, in ReliefWeb‎^[2], archived from the original on July 11, 2021‎^[3]:

     Another two counties, Wulan and Tianjun, as well as the two cities of Golmud and Delhi also suffered the floods. More than 1,000 heads of sheep were washed away.

Translations

county-level city

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 德令哈 (zh) (Délìnghā)

Anagrams

• Diehl, hidel, hidle, hield

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dêlxi/
• Hyphenation: Del‧hi

Proper noun

Dȅlhi m (Cyrillic spelling Де̏лхи)

1. Delhi (a megacity and union territory of India, containing the national capital New Delhi)

Declension

Declension of Delhi

	singular
nominative	Delhi
genitive	Delhija
dative	Delhiju
accusative	Delhi
vocative	Delhi
locative	Delhiju
instrumental	Delhijem

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdeli/ [ˈd̪e.li]
• Rhymes: -eli
• Syllabification: Del‧hi

Proper noun

Delhi f

1. Delhi (a megacity and union territory of India, containing the national capital New Delhi)

Derived terms

• delhita
• Nueva Delhi