Pamirs

American  

[pah-meerz] / pɑˈmɪərz /

noun

1. the Pamirs, a mountainous region in central Asia, largely in Tajikistan, where three mountain ranges (the Hindu Kush, the Tien Shan, andthe Himalayas ) converge: highest peaks, about 25,000 feet (7,600 meters).

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Pamirs British  

/ pəˈmɪəz /

plural noun

1. Also known as: the Pamir.  a mountainous area of central Asia, mainly in Tajikistan and partly in Kyrgyzstan, extending into China and Afghanistan: consists of a complex of high ranges, from which the Tian Shan projects to the north, the Kunlun and Karakoram to the east, and the Hindu Kush to the west; Ismoil Somoni (formerly Communism Peak) is situated in the Tajik Pamirs. Highest peak: Kongur Shan, 7719 m (25 326 ft)

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Example Sentences

We were in what I can only imagine were the foothills of the Pamirs, the mountain range beyond which lay Persian-speaking Tajikistan.

From New York Times • May 11, 2020

They say food, running water and electricity are scarce in the Pamirs.

From New York Times • Oct. 28, 2010

Its alomans blazon with fresh white paint as far as the high Pamirs and dark-eyed dancers of the oases tread out, to the measured beat of tambourines, new dances dedicated to "final victory."

From Time Magazine Archive

From the lofty, windy plateau of Central Asia in the shadow of the high Pamirs came Turkmen, Tajiks and Uzbeks to establish three more border republics in 1925.

From Time Magazine Archive

I see from the Temps that a great stirring of the tribes in the Southern Pamirs is reported.

From The Half-Hearted by Buchan, John