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| Domain | Definition |
Geography | Capital of Bangladesh. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Dhaka's history dates back to the year 1000, but the city achieved glory as the capital of Mughal Bengal. The city passed to British rule in 1765. It became the capital of East Pakistan in 1947. In 1971, the city became capital of the provisional government of an independent Bangladesh. It was formerly known under the spelling Dacca.
Landmarks include:
An older English spelling of the name is Dacca.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Dhaka."
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Movie/TV Titles | Meghe Dhaka Tara (1960) | |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Bangladesh | After returning to Dhaka, Khaleda Zia attempted to go by another route. (references) |
Bangladesh | Six persons were injured when bombs were thrown at an Awami League procession, led by M.P. Haji Selim in the Lalbagh district of Dhaka. (references) | |
Bangladesh | On May 20, activists from the ruling party student front, the BCL, assaulted two Dhaka University correspondents and threatened to kill one of them. (references) | |
Economic History | Bangladesh | No U.S. industries are in the Dhaka EPZ. (references) |
Bangladesh | The areas around Dhaka and Comilla are the most densely settled. (references) | |
Bangladesh | Due to increased demand by investors, the BDG has doubled the capacity of the Dhaka EPZ. (references) | |
Human Rights | Bangladesh | This program also has been implemented in Dhaka and Chittagong. (references) |
Bangladesh | Dhaka Awami League M.P. Iqbal led a procession to protest the hartal. (references) | |
Bangladesh | On April 11, two bombs exploded in an alley near a BNP rally in Dhaka. (references) | |
Political Economy | BANGLADESH | By the end of fiscal year 2001, the United States had invested $16.9 million into the Dhaka and Chittagong EPZs, far below the investments made by East Asian investors. (references) |
BANGLADESH | Export processing zones (EPZs) in Dhaka, Chittagong, Khulna and Ishwardi have successfully led to increased foreign investment in Bangladesh, but the country was at risk of losing access to benefits under Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) due to the government's slow pace in providing EPZs workers their labor rights. (references) | |
Trade | Bangladesh | The Bangladesh banking sector is made up of four nationalized commercial banks (NCBs), six development finance institutions, 27 domestic private banks, 22 non-bank financial institutions, including the Dhaka Stock Exchange and the Chittagong Stock Exchange, and 12 foreign banks. (references) |
Travel | Bangladesh | Food: Restaurants in Dhaka and Chittagong serve mainly local (Bengali), Indian, Chinese, and other Asian cuisine. (references) |
Bangladesh | Should a business traveler be unable to arrange for a visa in advance, immigration officials at Zia International Airport in Dhaka are authorized to issue limited validity visas for up to 90 days for a $45 fee. (references) | |
Burma | Myanmar Airways International (MAI), Silk Air (subsidiary of Singapore Air), Biman (Bangladesh), Air China (CAAC) and Thai Airways provide direct service to Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Kunming, Jakarta, Hong Kong, Bangkok, Dhaka and China. (references) | |
Women | Bangladesh | Employment opportunities have been stronger for women than for men in the last decade, which largely is due to the growth of the export garment industry in Dhaka and Chittagong. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "DHAKA" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "DHAKA" is used about 55 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 100% | 55 | 45,713 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "DHAKA"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | Dhaka. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | Dhaka. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | Dhaka. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | Dacca. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Dhaka. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | Ντάκκα. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | Dacca. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | akadhay Daca. (various references) Dhaka. (various references) Dhaka. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"DHAKA" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Dahik, Dahok, dhaba, dhala, Dhawan, Dhiyab, Dhoka, D'hoker, Diakka, Djika, Dohuk, Draka, dyaki, Ehukai, Haca, Hakka, Idhaa, Khakhar, Ohkawa, Whaka, Xheka. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-h-k" | |
-1 letter: dhak. | |
-2 letters: aah, aha, dah, dak, had. | |
-3 letters: aa, ad, ah, ha, ka. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-d-h-k" | |
+2 letters: khaddar. | |
+3 letters: backhand, hardback, hardhack, hardtack, kathodal, khaddars. | |
+4 letters: backhands, blackhead, handshake, hardbacks, hardhacks, hardtacks. | |
+5 letters: backhanded, backhander, backhauled, backlashed, backwashed, blackheads, chalkboard, hallmarked, handbasket, handshakes, packthread, tomahawked. | |
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| 1. Usage: Modern 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Quotations: Non-fiction 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Anagrams | 9. Bibliography |
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