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Dard

American  
[dahrd] / dɑrd /

noun

  1. Also Dardic. a group of Indic languages spoken in Kashmir, northern Pakistan, and eastern Afghanistan, and including Kashmiri.

  2. a member of the peoples who speak these languages.


Dard British  
/ dɑːd /

noun

  1. a member of any of the Indo-European peoples speaking a Dardic language

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Such considerations partly explain why, in my 20s, I worked my way through Dard Hunter’s magisterial “Papermaking: The History and Technique of an Ancient Craft.”

From Washington Post ● Aug. 14, 2019

"It's not actually as safe and progressive a community as we thought it was," said Sofia Dard, a 21-year-old senior majoring in psychology.

From Reuters ● Feb. 11, 2015

Half an hour before reaching Chamonix, we met, at the chalet of the Dard falls, some English tourists, who seemed to be watching our progress.

From A Winter Amid the Ice and Other Thrilling Stories by Jules Verne

There is little in the Dard to enlist the sympathies of the casual observer.

From The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir by Sir James McCrone Douie

"I'm not worrying about that," Kalvar Dard replied.

From Genesis by H. Beam Piper

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