السند

Arabic

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-Iranian *síndʰuš

Sanskrit सिन्धु (sindhu)bor.

Classical Persian سِنْد (sind)bor.

Arabic السند

Borrowed from Classical Persian سِنْد (sind).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /as.sind/

Proper noun

السِّنْد • (as-sind) m

1. Sindh (a province of Pakistan)
2. Indus (a river in the provinces of Sindh, Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the administrative territory of Gilgit-Baltistan in Pakistan, the union territory of Ladakh in India and the autonomous region of Tibet in China)

Further reading

• السند (إقليم) on the Arabic Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^ar
• نهر السند on the Arabic Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^ar