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Asian region whose name means "five rivers"
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punjab
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
region on the Indian subcontinent, from Hindi Panjab , from Persian panj "five" (from PIE *penkwo- ; see five ) + ab "water," from Iranian *ap- , from PIE *ap- (2) "water" (see water (n.1)). So called for its five rivers. Related: Punjabi .
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The Punjab (, , , ), also spelled Panjab , panj-āb , land of "five rivers" ( Punjabi : , ; ), is a geographical and cultural region in the northern part of South Asia , comprising areas of eastern Pakistan and northern India . Not being a political unit, ...
Usage examples of punjab.
The address Owen used was the Old Campus, Punjab University, strictly for receiving mail, Anand said.
Una turba hecha de hombres y mujeres de todas las naciones del Punjab se desbordó, rezando y cantando, sobre nosotros y casi nos barrió: me azoró que de patios tan angostos, que eran poco más que largos zaguanes, pudiera salir tanta gente.
The iron foundry of one of the most famous gun manufacturers in all the Punjab and the Indus basin which meant in all India was located on this flat and featureless alluvial plain.
It was a comparatively new sect -- contemporaneous with Christian Science or the Jehovah's Witnesses -- founded by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad in the Punjab.
It was a comparatively new sect--contemporaneous with Christian Science or the Jehovah's Witnesses--founded by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad in the Punjab.
West Pakistan comprised the provinces of Baluchistan, North-West Frontier Province, Punjab, and Sind, and it became the state of Pakistan in 1971 after East Pakistan seceded to become independent Bangladesh.
As a people they tended to understand machinery, and although the majority of Sikhs inhabited the Punjab, they could be found driving taxis and operating heavy equipment throughout the country.
Malwa cavalrymen had been keeping pace with the small Roman flotilla since it steamed out of Rohri, reporting its whereabouts to the fortress by using the telegraph line which the Malwa had stretched from their camp besieging Sukkur all the way to their headquarters in the Punjab.
We enter, and inside there's a circle of seven or eight people all sat on the floor passing round a joint, and listening to Chris with the dirty nails continuing his epic journey 'Across The Punjab Without a Toilet Roll', all to the accompaniment of early Van Morrison.
I knew what they held: maps, names, places, reports and summaries, laws and customs, biographies and artists' sketches, heights and distances, history, geography, even weights and measures - all that years of intelligence and espionage had gathered about the Punjab, to be digested and returned.