Helmand

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Pashto هلمند (Helmand) or Persian هلمند (helmand), ultimately from Avestan 𐬵𐬀𐬉𐬙𐬎𐬨𐬀𐬥𐬝 (haētumant̰, literally “with dams”).

Proper noun

Helmand

  1. (with the) A river in Afghanistan.
    • 1879, Sir Norman Lockyer, Nature, volume 19, page 41:
      To the west the Afghan plateau undergoes a very considerable depression, at the bottom of which lies the marshy lake, Hamoun, into which the Helmand river finds its way; but it again rises in the vast plains which lead towards Farsistan.
  2. A province of Afghanistan, named after the river.
    • 2016 August 22, Sune Engel Rasmussen, The Guardian:
      Since late July, the Taliban have seized new territory across Helmand, defying a series of about 30 US airstrikes, and raising concern of an attack on the capital.

Translations

Further reading

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.