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

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

Against all advice they had penetrated the snow-blocked Pamirs into Russian Turkestan, threaded the glaciered Tian-Shan range, crossed Chinese Turkestan and headed for Urga in Mongolia.

From Time Magazine Archive

I had told him that the natives in the Pamirs were true Persian stock, and this interested him greatly.

From The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies by Buchan, John