Dard Definition

därd
noun
A group of Indic languages spoken in the upper Indus River valley.
American Heritage

A member of an ethnic group mainly from northern Pakistan, Kashmir, and parts of Afghanistan.

Wiktionary
Synonyms:
  • Dardic language
  • dardic

Other Word Forms of Dard

Noun

Singular:
Dard
Plural:
dards

Origin of Dard

  • Related to Hindi दार्द / दारद (“Dard") and Persian دارد (“Dard").

    From Wiktionary

Dard Sentence Examples

  • Travelling thence to Peshawar (Purushapura), the capital of Gandhara, he made a digression, through the now inaccessible valley of Swat and the Dard states, to the Upper Indus, returning to Peshawar, and then crossing the Indus (Sintu) into the decayed kingdom of Taxila (Ta-cha-si-lo, Takshasila), then subject to Kashmir.

  • The so-called Dard races are referred to by Pliny and Ptolemy, and are supposed to be a people of Aryan origin who ascended the Indus valley from the plains of the Punjab, reaching as far north as Chitral, where they dispossessed the Khos.

  • Councilor Hussey proposed an addendum to his proposal that its contents receive clearance from DARD.

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Words Starting With

DDADAR

Words Ending With

DRDARD

Unscrambles

Dard

Words Starting With D and Ending With D

Starts With D & Ends With DStarts With DA & Ends With DStarts With D & Ends With RD

Word Length

4 Letter Words4 Letter Words Starting With D4 Letter Words Ending With D