单词 | dhandh |
释义 | dhandhn. A lake or swamp of the territorial division of Sind in India. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > lake > [noun] > specific Great Lakes1634 dhandh1851 Masurian Lakes1878 1851 R. F. Burton Sindh i. 11 Numerous channels..carry off the surplus water, feeding and refilling the lakes and dandhs, whose moisture has evaporated during the cold season. 1887 Encycl. Brit. XXII. 91/1 In the cold season the lakes or dhandhs are covered with wild geese, kulang, ducks, teal, curlew, and snipe. 1926 Blackwood's Mag. Dec. 807/1 Any swamp or overflow water or tank or jhil in Sind is a dhand. 1928 Blackwood's Mag. Mar. 389/1 In that year the dhand extended more than a hundred miles north and south, and ten to thirty miles east and west. 1928 Blackwood's Mag. Mar. 389/2 Several canals took off from the dhand. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1851 |
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