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Urdu
Etymology
From Classical Persian مهران (mihrān).
Cognate with Punjabi مہران (mehrān) and Sindhi مَهَراڻُ (maharāṇu), Persian borrowings.
An ancient Persianate name for the Indus, it was already in use during the earliest medieval era. The accomplished Arab grammarian Ibn Duraid in the 9th century used the name to describe the "great river" in what is today Pakistan.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
مہران • (mehrān) ? (Hindi spelling मिहरान)
- the Indus (river)
- the Indus Valley; the Indus country
- a king
- Synonyms: شاہ (śāh), راجا (rājā)
Synonyms
References
- “مہران”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “مہران”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
- “mihraan”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
- S. W. Fallon (1879) “مہران”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
- Platts, John T. (1884) “مہران”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.