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 Ganges and the Yamuna

   the doab between the Ganges and the Yamuna

   • 1889, Rudyard Kipling, “Only A Subaltern”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 145:

     Bobby pressed his forehead against the rain-splashed windowpane as the train lumbered across the sodden Doab, and prayed for the health of the Tyneside Tail Twisters.

   • 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

• Abdo, Boda, Obad., abdo, boa'd, boad

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