DHAKA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Dhaka mean? 

• DHAKA (noun)
  The noun DHAKA has 1 sense:

1. the capital and largest city of Bangladesh

  Familiarity information: DHAKA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DHAKA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The capital and largest city of Bangladesh

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

capital of Bangladesh; Dacca; Dhaka

Instance hypernyms:

national capital (the capital city of a nation)

Holonyms ("Dhaka" is a part of...):

Bangla Desh; Bangladesh; East Pakistan; People's Republic of Bangladesh (a Muslim republic in southern Asia bordered by India to the north and west and east and the Bay of Bengal to the south; formerly part of India and then part of Pakistan; it achieved independence in 1971. In local language, 'Bangladesh' means Land of the Bengalis ('Bangla' means Bengali, 'desh' means land or country))

 Context examples 

More than 50 per cent of piped water samples in Dhaka were found to be contaminated with Escherichia coli, a bacterium responsible for diarrhoea and an important cause of childhood mortality in the Asia-Pacific region.

(Chlorine dispensers fitted to public taps cut child diarrhoea, SciDev.Net)

He explained that the study though was based on earlier work of investigators at the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research in Dhaka, Bangladesh, who had previously shown that children naturally exposed to ETEC are more likely to get sick if they are blood group A.

(People with type A blood at most risk of severe diarrhoea, SciDev.Net)