Kashmiri
[kash-meer-ee, kazh-]
- a native or inhabitant of Kashmir.
- the Indo-Iranian language of the Kashmiri.
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- of or relating to Kashmir or its people.
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Contemporary Examples
Compare the British pillory of Tebbit with the reaction in India to the Kashmiri students.
One was a Kashmiri, the other a Pashtun; neither had met a Jew in his life.
The death of bin Laden, Kashmiri, and now Attiyah leave the Al Qaeda core in Pakistan badly wounded.
Adds a European intelligence officer: “Kashmiri is the most important guy linking al Qaeda with Western recruits.”
Al Qaeda Commander Ilyas Kashmiri Killed in U.S. Predator StrikeRon Moreau & Sami Yousafzai, Christopher Dickey
June 4, 2011
This is not the first time Kashmiri has been reported killed by a drone attack; he has reappeared after claims of his demise.
Historical Examples
A cat's moon is a Kashmiri expression for a sleepless night.
Beast and Man in IndiaJohn Lockwood Kipling
The vocabulary of Kashmiri is, as has been explained, mixed.
His Highness then addressed the Kashmiri engineer in Persian.
At the Court of the AmrJohn Alfred Gray
Yet apart from this, the ordinary Kashmiri villager is not an attractive being.
KashmirSir Francis Edward Younghusband
She speaks little but Kashmiri, but I know a little of that.
The Ninth Vibration And Other StoriesL. Adams Beck
Kashmiri
- of or relating to Kashmir, its people, or their language
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- plural -miris or -miri a member of the people of Kashmir
- the state language of Kashmir, belonging to the Dardic group of the Indo-European family of languages
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