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English
Proper noun
Bagdad
Dated spelling of Baghdad , the capital city of Iraq
A number of places in the United States :
A census-designated place in Yavapai County , Arizona .
A former settlement in Butte County , California .
A ghost town in San Bernardino County , California .
A census-designated place in Santa Rosa County , Florida .
An unincorporated community in Shelby County , Kentucky .
A hamlet in the town of Collins , Erie County , New York .
An unincorporated community in Caroline County , Virginia .
A ghost town in Forest County , Wisconsin .
A rural community of Queens County , New Brunswick , Canada .
A former town on the Rio Grande , Tamaulipas , Mexico .
A village in Greater Poland Voivodeship , Poland .
A town in Southern Midlands council area, Tasmania , Australia .
Afrikaans
Proper noun
Bagdad
Baghdad (the capital city of Iraq )
Baghdad (a governorate of Iraq )
Derived terms
Catalan
Proper noun
Bagdad f
Baghdad (the capital city of Iraq )
Baghdad (a governorate of Iraq )
Danish
Proper noun
Bagdad
Baghdad (the capital city of Iraq )
Baghdad (a governorate of Iraq )
Dutch
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium .)
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /ˈbɑxdɑt/ ,
Hyphenation: Bag‧dad
Proper noun
Bagdad n
Baghdad (the capital city of Iraq )
Baghdad (a governorate of Iraq )
Finnish
Etymology
From Arabic بَغْدَاد ( baḡdād ) .
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Bagdad
Baghdad (the capital city of Iraq )
Baghdad (a governorate of Iraq )
Declension
Derived terms
French
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Bagdad f
Baghdad (the capital city of Iraq )
Baghdad (a governorate of Iraq )
German
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Bagdad n (proper noun , genitive Bagdads or ( optionally with an article ) Bagdad )
Baghdad (the capital city of Iraq )
Baghdad (a governorate of Iraq )
Derived terms
Hungarian
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish بغداد ( bağdād ) (present-day Turkish Bağdat ), from Arabic بَغْدَاد ( baḡdād ) .[ 1]
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Bagdad
Baghdad (the capital city of Iraq )
Baghdad (a governorate of Iraq )
Declension
Derived terms
References
^ Lajos Kiss (Q1111850) . Földrajzi nevek etimológiai szótára (’An Etymological Dictionary of Geographical Names / Toponyms’). Budapest, Akadémiai Kiadó, 1980. →ISBN
Irish
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic بَغْدَاد ( baḡdād ) .
Proper noun
Bagdad m (genitive Bhagdad )
Baghdad (the capital city of Iraq )
Baghdad (a governorate of Iraq )
Declension
Mutation
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
“Baghdad ”, in New English-Irish Dictionary , Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025
Italian
Etymology
Doublet of Baldacca .
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Bagdad ?
Baghdad (the capital city of Iraq )
Baghdad (a governorate of Iraq )
References
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Arabic بَغْدَاد ( baḡdād ) , from Persian بغداد ( bağdâd ) .
Proper noun
Bagdad
Baghdad (the capital city of Iraq )
Baghdad (a governorate of Iraq )
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Arabic بَغْدَاد ( baḡdād ) , from Persian بغداد ( bağdâd ) .
Proper noun
Bagdad
Baghdad (the capital city of Iraq )
Baghdad (a governorate of Iraq )
Polish
Bagdad
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /ˈbaɡ.dat/
Rhymes: -aɡdat
Syllabification: Bag‧dad
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Arabic بَغْدَاد ( baḡdād ) .
Proper noun
Bagdad m inan (related adjective bagdadzki )
Baghdad (the capital city of Iraq )
Baghdad (a governorate of Iraq )
Derived terms
Etymology 2
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium .)
Proper noun
Bagdad m inan
Bagdad (a village in the Gmina of Wyrzysk , Piła County, Greater Poland Voivodeship , Poland )
Declension
Further reading
Bagdad in Wielki słownik języka polskiego , Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
Bagdad in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Bagdad in PWN's encyclopedia
Romanian
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Bagdad n
Baghdad (the capital city of Iraq )
Baghdad (a governorate of Iraq )
Serbo-Croatian
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /bǎɡdaːd/
Hyphenation: Bag‧dad
Proper noun
Bàgdād m (Cyrillic spelling Ба̀гда̄д )
Baghdad (the capital city of Iraq )
Baghdad (a governorate of Iraq )
Declension
Slovak
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Bagdad m inan (genitive singular Bagdadu , declension pattern of dub )
Baghdad (the capital city of Iraq )
Baghdad (a governorate of Iraq )
References
“Bagdad ”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science ] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk , 2003–2025
Spanish
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /baɡˈdad/
Rhymes: -ad
Syllabification: Bag‧dad
Proper noun
Bagdad ?
Baghdad (the capital city of Iraq )
Baghdad (a governorate of Iraq )
Swedish
Proper noun
Bagdad n (genitive Bagdads )
Baghdad (the capital city of Iraq )
Baghdad (a governorate of Iraq )