lashkar
noun
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 Mundy, Talbot
We can't prove anything, but the spies keep bringing in rumors of ten thousand men in Khinjan Caves, and of another large lashkar not far away from Khinjan.
From King of the Khyber Rifles by Mundy, Talbot
"Does this other letter tell of the lashkar, too?"
From King of the Khyber Rifles by Mundy, Talbot
We keep hearing of that lashkar that we can't locate, under a mullah whose name seems to change with the day of the week.
From King of the Khyber Rifles by Mundy, Talbot
The day one raiding lashkar gets command of the Khyber's throat, the others'll all believe they've won the game.
From King of the Khyber Rifles by Mundy, Talbot
Both of the Marines, when asked, had never heard of Lashkar Gah, the capital of Afghanistan’s southern Helmand Province, where Mr. Safi had spent months locked in a bloody urban battle with the Taliban.
From New York Times ● Oct. 9, 2021
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
Dr Urosevic works at a trauma hospital in Lashkar Gah.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2021
Critical infrastructure in Kunduz, Kandahar, and Lashkar Gah has been destroyed, she told Reuters.
From Reuters ● Sep. 2, 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 Pennell, T. L. (Theodore Leighton)
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