doab

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian ⁧دوآب⁩ (do-âb) and Hindi दोआब (doāb), properly meaning "two waters".

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈdoʊ.ɑːb/

Noun

doab (plural doabs)

  1. (India) A tongue or tract of land included between two rivers, especially that between the Ganga and the Yamuna
    the doab between the Ganga and the Yamuna
    • 2010, John Keay, India: A History :
      Known as the northern black polished (NBP), it first appears after 500 BC, rapidly supersedes the earlier styles (PGW, BRW) in Bihar and UP, an eventually extends across the Doab and deep into Panjab, east to Bengal and south to Maharashtra.

Anagrams

Volapük

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /doˈab/

Noun

doab (nominative plural doabs)

  1. dollar

Declension
declension of doab
singular plural
nominative doab doabs
genitive doaba doabas
dative doabe doabes
accusative doabi doabis
vocative 1 o doab! o doabs!
predicative 2 doabu doabus
  • 1 status as a case is disputed
  • 2 in later, non-classical Volapük only
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