Definitions for Pamirs

Pamirs Pa·mirs

Spelling: [pah-meerz]
IPA: /pɑˈmɪərz/

Pamirs is a 6 letter English word.

You can make 178 anagrams from letters in Pamirs (aimprs).

Definitions for Pamirs

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  1. the, a mountainous region in central Asia, largely in Tajikistan, where the Hindu Kush, Tien Shan, and Himalaya mountain ranges converge: highest peaks, about 25,000 feet (7600 meters).

Examples for Pamirs

To-night he stands on the Roof of the World, a solitary, colossal figure upright on the lone Pamirs.

The routes to Kashgaria and the Pamirs are mere bridle-paths over the mountains, crossing them by lofty passes.

Swat itself is a considerable province of Afghanistan, bordering on India, and just southwest of the Pamirs.

However that may be, it is fairly certain that no great amount of trade ever crossed the Pamirs.

In summer, like the Pamirs, they emerge from their winter's sleep and become a succession of grass-covered downs.

On the high plateau of the Pamirs and the adjacent districts Marco Polo's sheep is found.

These mountains, with the adjacent plateaus of the Pamirs and the great ranges of Central Asia, form the main home of the group.

These eastward continuations of the double border-range of the Pamirs are the constituent ranges of the Kuen-lun proper.

The altitude at which other wild sheep are found is, however, very great; on the Pamirs it reaches twenty thousand feet.

It rises under the Pamirs and is otherwise known as the Chitral River.

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