Secunderabad

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Secunderabad

/sɪˈkəndəɹəbɑːd/
/ˈsɛkəndəɹəbɑːd/

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From Urdu سِکَنْدَر آباد (sikandar ābād) / Hindi सिकंदराबाद (sikandrābād), named after Sikander Jah. The spelling was likely influenced by Latin secundus.

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The twin city of Hyderabad Telangana, India. It was my fate to commence my career in the medical service forty years ago in the presanitary days, long before the introduction of modern methods of diagnosis, at two of the most unhealthy stations in the whole of India — Bellary and Secunderabad.

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name city in India

हिन्दी	सिकंदराबाद sikandrābād

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@misc{secunderabad_2026,
  title = {Secunderabad},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/secunderabad},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}