Brahmaputra
English
editAlternative forms
edit- Burrampooter (obsolete)
Etymology
editBorrowed from Sanskrit ब्रह्मपुत्र (brahmaputra, “son of Brahma”), from ब्रह्मा (brahmā, “Brahma”) + पुत्र (putra, “son”).
Pronunciation
editProper noun
editBrahmaputra
- A river which flows through Tibet, India and Bangladesh.
- 1973, Chiao-min Hsieh, “Tibet”, in Christopher L. Salter, editor, Atlas of China[1], McGraw-Hill, Inc., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 198:
- Jih-k’a-tse, Tibet’s second largest city, is located on the Brahmaputra southwest of Lhasa, in Tibet’s major grain-producing area, with highland barley as the major grain.
Synonyms
edit- (upper stream) Yarlung Tsangpo, Yarlung Zangbo
Translations
editriver
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Noun
editBrahmaputra (plural Brahmaputras)
- A domestic fowl, the Brahmapootra.
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