Etymology

Kolkata

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Today it means: The capital city of West Bengal, India, formerly known in English as Calcutta. Full definition →

Bengali কলকাতা
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The story

  1. Bengali · borrowed fromকলকাতা
  2. English todayKolkata

Borrowed from Bengali কলকাতা (kolkata); further etymology disputed. More on the Wikipedia page.

Words from the same roots

Bengaliকলকাতা all →

calcutta

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