سنہہ
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Saraiki[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Inherited from Sanskrit सिन्धु (sindhu). Compare Khowar [script needed] (sin) and Urdu سِنْدھ (sindh). Doublet of سِنْدھ (sindh).
Proper noun[edit]
سِنّہہ (sinnh) f
- Indus (a river in the provinces of Sindh, Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the administrative territory of Gilgit-Baltistan in Pakistan, the union territory of Ladakh in India and the autonomous region of Tibet in China).
Usage notes[edit]
This term is mainly referred to the part of the river below Kalabagh; see اَٹَک (aṭak), for the part of the river above Kalabagh.
References[edit]
- “سنہہ”, in Dictionary of the Jatki Or Western Panjábi Language, United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis, 2019 (originally published in 1900), →ISBN, page 199
- Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “sindhu”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 774