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Brahmaputra
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English
Alternative forms
en Burrampooter obsolete
Etymology
en sa बृह्
en sa ब्रह्मपुत्र son of Brahma, from sa ब्रह्मा Brahma + sa पुत्र son.
Pronunciation
en /ˈbɹɑː.məˌpuː.tɹə/ UK
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Sumxr-Brahmaputra.wav US
Proper noun
A river which flows through Tibet, India and Bangladesh.
en 1973 Chiao-min Hsieh Tibet Christopher L. Salter Atlas of China https://archive.org/details/atlasofchina00hsie/ McGraw-Hill, Inc. 0-07-030628-1 72-8717 1204247698 9249878M 198 https://archive.org/details/atlasofchina00hsie/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
upper stream en Yarlung Tsangpo, en Yarlung Zangbo
Translations
river
Assamese: as ব্ৰহ্মপুত্ৰ
Bengali: bn ব্রহ্মপুত্র bromhoputro, bn যমুনা
Burmese: my ဗြဟ္မာပုတ္တ
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 布拉馬普特拉河 Bùlāmǎpǔtèlā Hé
Greek: el Βραχμαπούτρα m
Hindi: hi ब्रह्मपुत्र
Malayalam: ml ബ്രഹ്മപുത്ര
Marathi: mr ब्रह्मपुत्र f
Sanskrit: sa ब्रह्मपुत्र f
Urdu: ur برہمپترہ
Noun
A domestic fowl, the Brahmapootra.
en Chickens Rivers in India