Delhi

English Etymology 1 <dab!> Corrupted from en inc-hnd ur دہلی dihlī, dêhli / hi देहली, from en fa-cls دهلی dihlī, of en 1 origin. See Delhi § Toponym at Wikipedia and hi दिल्ली for more. Pronunciation city in India en /ˈdɛl.i/, en ɛli 2 en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Delhi.wav Southern England en en-us-deli.ogg US en deli ; Dally<aa:celery-salary merger> daily<aa:fell-fail merger> Proper noun thumb|right|200px|Delhi within the Republic of India en Q1353en megacity/and/union territory c/India containing the national capital New Delhi. en Randeep Ramesh Speed limits rise as India falls in love with the car w:The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/dec/05/india.randeepramesh 2007-12-05 The £4bn expressways form a diamond linking Delhi with the country's three other largest cities, Mumbai, Chennai and Calcutta, marking the beginning of more than £35bn of road projects. https://web.archive.org/web/20261018022009/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/dec/05/india.randeepramesh 18 October 2026 en synecdoche The Indian government. en 5 October 2026 Nikhil Inamdar How India became dangerously addicted to Chinese imports https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5pve834grpno BBC News Even as diplomatic ties between the two countries completely broke down following the Galwan Valley clashes in 2020 and Delhi announced a slew of anti-dumping duties and a ban on Chinese apps such as Tik Tok, its trade deficit with Beijing has only ballooned - from $44bn in 2020 to an eye-popping $112bn this year. 5 October 2026 Synonyms en National Capital Territory en formal Derived terms en Delhi belly Delhian Delhiite Delhi Sultanate Central Delhi East Delhi North Delhi North East Delhi North West Delhi South Delhi South East Delhi South West Delhi West Delhi New Delhi Descendants ar دِلْهِي 1 zh 德里 Délǐ 1 el Δελχί 1 he דֵלְהִי delhī 1 ja デリー Derī 1 ko ^델리 1 ta டெல்லி 1 tr Delhi 1 Translations city in India Albanian: sq Delhi Amharic: am ዴሊ Arabic: ar دِهْلِي f, ar دِلْهِي f Armenian: hy Դելի Assamese: as দিল্লী Azerbaijani: az Dehli Belarusian: be Дэ́лі m Bengali: bn দিল্লি Bhojpuri: bho दिल्ली Brahui: brh Daelí Bulgarian: bg Де́лхи m Burmese: my ဒေလီမြို့ Catalan: ca Delhi Chinese: Cantonese: yue 德里 Mandarin: cmn 德里 Circassian: West Circassian: ady Дели Czech: cs Dillí n Danish: da Delhi n Dhivehi: dv ދިއްލީ Dutch: nl Delhi Estonian: et Delhi Finnish: fi Delhi French: fr Delhi Georgian: ka დელი German: de Delhi Greek: el Δελχί n Hebrew: he דֵלְהִי f delhi Hindi: hi दिल्ली f, hi देहली f Hungarian: hu Delhi Icelandic: is Delí Indonesian: id Delhi Italian: it Delhi Japanese: ja デリー Derī Kannada: kn ದೆಹಲಿ, kn ದಿಲ್ಲಿ Kashmiri: ks دِل f Kazakh: kk Дели Khmer: km ដេលី, km ដេលហ៊ី Konkani: kok दिल्ली dillī Korean: ko ^델리 Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: kmr Delhî Kyrgyz: ky Дели Lao: lo ເດລີ Latin: la Dellium New Latin Latvian: lv Deli Lithuanian: lt Delis m Macedonian: mk Делхи n Maithili: mai दिल्ली dillī Malay: ms Delhi Malayalam: ml ദില്ലി Manipuri: Bishnupriya Manipuri: bpy দিল্লী dillī Marathi: mr दिल्ली Old Marathi: Devanagari: omr ढीली Modi: omr 𑘛𑘲𑘩𑘲 Mongolian: Cyrillic: mn Дели Nepali: ne दिल्ली Newar: new दिल्ली Norwegian: Bokmål: nb Delhi n Nynorsk: nn Delhi n Odia: or ଦିଲ୍ଲୀ Pashto: ps ډیلي, ps دهلي Persian: fa دِهْلی dehli Polish: pl Delhi Portuguese: pt Déli, pt Deli, pt Delhi proscribed Prakrit: Maharastri Prakrit: pra-mah 𑀠𑀺𑀮𑁆𑀮𑀻 Punjabi: Gurmukhi: pa ਦਿੱਲੀ Shahmukhi: pa دِلِّی Quechua: qu Dilhi Romanian: ro Delhi Russian: ru Де́ли m Dɛ́li Sanskrit: sa देहली, sa इन्द्रप्रस्थ m Santali: sat ᱫᱤᱞᱞᱤ Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: sh Де̏лхи m Latin: sh Dȅlhi m Sinhalese: si දිල්ලිය Slovak: sk Dillí n Slovene: sl Delhi n Spanish: es Delhi f Swedish: sv Delhi n Tajik: tg Деҳлӣ Tamil: ta தில்லி, ta டெல்லி Tatar: tt Дәһли, tt Дели Telugu: te ఢిల్లీ Thai: th เดลี, th ดิลลี Turkish: tr Delhi Ottoman Turkish: ota دهلی Dihli Turkmen: tk Deli Ukrainian: uk Де́лі m Urdu: ur دِہْلی f, ur دِلّی f mainly India Uyghur: ug دېھلى Uzbek: uz Dehli Vietnamese: vi Đê-li See also Further reading en 2008 Delhi Saul B. Cohen The Columbia Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee0000unse_l7h3/ 2nd 1 New York Columbia University Press 978-0-231-14554-1 2008009181 212893637 990-991 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee0000unse_l7h3/page/990/ Etymology 2 en Pronunciation locale in North America en /ˈdɛl.haɪ/ en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Delhi2.wav Southern England en aɪ 2 Proper noun en locale continent/North America ; named for the city in India. en CDP co/Merced County s/California. en town co/Delaware County s/New York. en village/county seat co/Delaware County s/New York, located within the town of the same name. en community s/Ontario. en town s/Louisiana. en city s/Iowa. en city s/Minnesota. en unincorporated community s/Illinois. en unincorporated community s/Colorado. en unincorporated community s/Georgia. en unincorporated community s/Missouri. en unincorporated community s/Texas. en ghost town s/Wisconsin. en community co/Norfolk County p/Ontario c/Canada. Etymology 3 + From en mn Дэлхий / mn ᠳᠡᠯᠡᠬᠡᠢ. Proper noun en Delingha. en 28 Jul 2008 Floods leave two miners missing, two others trapped in northwest China https://web.archive.org/web/20210711152334/https://reliefweb.int/report/china/floods-leave-two-miners-missing-two-others-trapped-northwest-china July 11, 2021 w:ReliefWeb https://web.archive.org/web/20101024084104/http://www.china.org.cn/china/flood2008/2008-07/29/content_16088365.htm 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: cmn 德令哈 Délìnghā Anagrams en dehil Diehl hidel hidle hield en heteronyms Portuguese Proper noun f pt proscribed pt Déli//Deli: pt Delhi Q1353 Usage notes Déli Deli Serbo-Croatian sh: Pronunciation Dȅlhi sh Del hi Proper noun Dȅlhi m-in sh Delhi Q1353 Declension Delhi Delhija Delhiju Delhi Delhi Delhiju Delhijem Spanish es: Pronunciation Proper noun f es Delhi Q1353 Derived terms es Nueva Delhi delhita