Shariatpur District
English edit
Etymology edit
Refers to the district of Shariatpur, a transliteration of শরীয়তপুর, ultimately a bilingual compound of Arabic شَرِيعَة (šarīʕa, “law, shari'a”) + Bengali পুর (pura, “city”), named in honor of Haji Shariatullah.
Proper noun edit
- One of the thirteen districts in the Dhaka Division of Bangladesh
Translations edit
Shariatpur District
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