# H'bad

> English word · Proper noun

## Definitions
1. Abbreviation of Hyderabad: a city in Telangana, India.

## Etymology
Contraction of Hyderabad. The apostrophe character ' separating the first letter of the unabbreviated spelling from the Persian placename suffix -abad with the elision of the initial vowel letter.
Compare A’bad.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/h-bad