"Calcutta" meaning in French

See Calcutta in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

IPA: /kal.ky.ta/
Etymology: Borrowed from English Calcutta, from Bengali কলকাতা (kolkata). Etymology templates: {{bor|fr|en|Calcutta}} English Calcutta, {{der|fr|bn|কলকাতা}} Bengali কলকাতা (kolkata) Head templates: {{fr-proper noun|f}} Calcutta f
  1. Kolkata, Calcutta (the capital city of West Bengal, India) Wikipedia link: fr:Calcutta Tags: feminine Categories (place): Cities in India, Cities in West Bengal, Kolkata, Places in India, Places in West Bengal Synonyms: Kolkata
    Sense id: en-Calcutta-fr-name-AcIF~Tm3 Categories (other): French entries with incorrect language header, State capitals of India

Download JSON data for Calcutta meaning in French (2.4kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "en",
        "3": "Calcutta"
      },
      "expansion": "English Calcutta",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "bn",
        "3": "কলকাতা"
      },
      "expansion": "Bengali কলকাতা (kolkata)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from English Calcutta, from Bengali কলকাতা (kolkata).",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "f"
      },
      "expansion": "Calcutta f",
      "name": "fr-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "French",
  "lang_code": "fr",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "French entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "fr",
          "name": "Cities in India",
          "orig": "fr:Cities in India",
          "parents": [
            "Cities",
            "Places",
            "Polities",
            "Names",
            "All topics",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "fr",
          "name": "Cities in West Bengal",
          "orig": "fr:Cities in West Bengal",
          "parents": [
            "Cities",
            "Places",
            "Polities",
            "Names",
            "All topics",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "fr",
          "name": "Kolkata",
          "orig": "fr:Kolkata",
          "parents": [
            "West Bengal",
            "India",
            "Asia",
            "Earth",
            "Eurasia",
            "Nature",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "fr",
          "name": "Places in India",
          "orig": "fr:Places in India",
          "parents": [
            "Places",
            "Names",
            "All topics",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "fr",
          "name": "Places in West Bengal",
          "orig": "fr:Places in West Bengal",
          "parents": [
            "Places",
            "Names",
            "All topics",
            "Proper nouns",
            "Terms by semantic function",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "fr",
          "name": "State capitals of India",
          "orig": "fr:State capitals of India",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Kolkata, Calcutta (the capital city of West Bengal, India)"
      ],
      "id": "en-Calcutta-fr-name-AcIF~Tm3",
      "links": [
        [
          "Kolkata",
          "Kolkata#English"
        ],
        [
          "Calcutta",
          "Calcutta#English"
        ],
        [
          "capital city",
          "capital city"
        ],
        [
          "West Bengal",
          "West Bengal#English"
        ],
        [
          "India",
          "India#English"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "Kolkata"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "fr:Calcutta"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/kal.ky.ta/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Calcutta"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "en",
        "3": "Calcutta"
      },
      "expansion": "English Calcutta",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "bn",
        "3": "কলকাতা"
      },
      "expansion": "Bengali কলকাতা (kolkata)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from English Calcutta, from Bengali কলকাতা (kolkata).",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "f"
      },
      "expansion": "Calcutta f",
      "name": "fr-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "French",
  "lang_code": "fr",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "French 3-syllable words",
        "French entries with incorrect language header",
        "French feminine nouns",
        "French lemmas",
        "French proper nouns",
        "French terms borrowed from English",
        "French terms derived from Bengali",
        "French terms derived from English",
        "French terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "fr:Cities in India",
        "fr:Cities in West Bengal",
        "fr:Kolkata",
        "fr:Places in India",
        "fr:Places in West Bengal",
        "fr:State capitals of India"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Kolkata, Calcutta (the capital city of West Bengal, India)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Kolkata",
          "Kolkata#English"
        ],
        [
          "Calcutta",
          "Calcutta#English"
        ],
        [
          "capital city",
          "capital city"
        ],
        [
          "West Bengal",
          "West Bengal#English"
        ],
        [
          "India",
          "India#English"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "Kolkata"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "fr:Calcutta"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/kal.ky.ta/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Calcutta"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable French dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.