# Howrah

> English word · Proper noun · IPA /haʊɹə/ · frequency rank #71,574

## Definitions
1. A large city and district in West Bengal; a suburb of Kolkata, India.
2. A suburb of the City of Clarence, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

## Etymology
Borrowed from Bengali হাওড়া (haōṛa). The name would later be used for a property in Tasmania, Australia, which in turn inspired the name of the suburb in Hobart.

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