lashkar
noun
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lashkar
1 American
[lash-ker]
/ ˈlæʃ kər /
noun
Lashkar
2
American
[luhsh-ker]
/ ˈlʌʃ kər /
noun
Lashkar
British
/ ˈlʌʃkə /
noun
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"How great is the lashkar that is forming?" asked Courtenay.
From King of the Khyber Rifles by Talbot Mundy
"What knowest thou of the lashkar that is gathering?"
From King of the Khyber Rifles by Talbot Mundy
Nor, seeking proof for our new recruit, do we send men to hunt a head for him—not even those of us who have a lashkar that we call our own, mullah Muhammad Anim.
From King of the Khyber Rifles by Talbot Mundy
"Does this other letter tell of the lashkar, too?"
From King of the Khyber Rifles by Talbot Mundy
In the letter that I left at Ali Masjid there is news of the lashkar that is gathering in the 'Hills,' above Ali Masjid and beyond Khinjan.
From King of the Khyber Rifles by Talbot Mundy
The order in Helmand province was issued by the provincial Taliban government’s vice and virtue department to barbers in Lashkar Gah, the provincial capital.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 27, 2021
In Lashkar Gah, young Talibs reacted to the BBC cameras by taking out their mobile phones, filming us and taking selfies with the foreigners.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2021
Critical infrastructure in Kunduz, Kandahar, and Lashkar Gah has been destroyed, she told Reuters.
From Reuters ● Sep. 2, 2021
It was lightly defended because government forces were focused on holding the much larger southern cities of Kandahar and Lashkar Gah.
From New York Times ● Aug. 18, 2021
Lashkar = an army; often applied in Afghanistán to a small body of men going out from a tribe for warlike purposes, but they may be going for peaceful purposes—hence the English “lascar.”
From Among the Wild Tribes of the Afghan Frontier A Record of Sixteen Years' Close Intercourse with the Natives of the Indian Marches by T. L. (Theodore Leighton) Pennell
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