Delhi

Corrupted from Urdu دہلی‎ (dihlī, dehlī) and Hindi देहली (dehlī), from Classical Persian دهلی‎ (dihli), of uncertain origin. See Delhi § Toponym at Wikipedia. Compare Hindi दिल्ली (dillī).

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

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  • Homophone: deli
  • Rhymes: -ɛli
• (locale in North America):
  • IPA^(key): /ˈdɛl.haɪ/

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  • Rhymes: -aɪ

Delhi within the Republic of India

Delhi

1. A megacity and union territory of India, containing the national capital New Delhi.
2. 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 in 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 in Norfolk County, Ontario, Canada.

• National Capital Territory (formal)

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

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

• (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)}

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

Mongolian Дэлхий (Delxii) / ᠳᠡᠯᠡᠬᠡᠢ (delekei̯).

Delhi

1. A county-level city in Haixi, Qinghai, China
   • 2008 July 28, “Floods leave two miners missing, two others trapped in northwest China”, in ReliefWeb‎, archived from the original on July 11, 2021‎:

     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.

   • [2020 June 15, Broad, William J., “China Reports Progress in Ultra-Secure Satellite Transmission”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 June 2020, Science‎:

     In August 2016, from the Gobi Desert, China launched the world’s first satellite for testing the transmission of quantum information on light particles. The satellite was nicknamed Micius after a Chinese philosopher of the fifth century B.C. It fired concentrated beams of laser light to relay the quantum signals between two telescopes built at ground stations in Delingha and Nanshan, in China, 700 miles apart.]

• (from Mandarin Chinese) Delingha

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Delingha”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, volume 1, 2nd edition, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 991, column 3

• Diehl, hidel, hidle, hield

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

Dȅlhi m (Cyrillic spelling Де̏лхи)

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

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

Delhi f

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