Mohmandn.adj.
/ˈməʊmənd/, U.S. /ˈmoʊm(ə)n(d)/ A. n.
A member of a Pathan people partly inhabiting the mountainous region of Pakistan and eastern Afghanistan to the north of the Khyber Pass, and partly settled in the plains of the Peshawar district of Pakistan. Also (rare): the dialect of Eastern Pashto spoken by this people.
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Kurd1609
Afghan1625
Rohilla1767
Afridi1784
Mohmand1815
Kaffir1834
Powindah1851
Sart1871
Shinwari1875
Guran1882
Afghani1966
the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Asia > native or inhabitant of Pakistan > [noun] > parts of
Baluch1616
Mohmand1815
Wazir1815
Pakhtun1880
1815 M. Elphinstone Acct. Kingdom Caubul iii. i. 360 The division of the Momunds which resides in the plain..has no connection except in blood with the Upper Momunds.
1847 Shahamat Ali Sikhs & Afghans x. 200 The Momands are a large and very influential tribe.
1897 Daily Tel. 7 Oct. 11/1 The Swatis, Bonerwals, Mohmands and other frontier tribes with whom the Malakand Field Force is at present engaged are brave and warlike.
1914 H. A. Rose Gloss. Tribes & Castes Punjab & North-west Frontier Province III. 125 Mohmand, Mahmand, a branch of the Ghoria Khel Patháns. They are divided into the lower or Plain Mohmand and the upper or Bar Mohmand.
1932 Cambr. Hist. India XI. xxv. 462 The Khyber was constantly raided by Zakka Khels and Mohmands.
1973 Pakistan Forum Sept. 10/2 If we take the Mohmands as an example, we notice that although the Mohmand Agency is considered as their home, there are probably more Mohmands in Charaadah and other areas of Peshawar.
1991 L. W. Adamec Hist. Dict. Afghanistan 161 The Mohmands have generally remained neutral.
1996 B. F. Grimes Ethnologue (ed. 13) 744 Pashto, Eastern... Dialects: Kohat (Khatak), Yusufzai (Peshawar),..Mohmand, [etc.].
B. adj.
Of or relating to, or designating this people.
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the world > people > ethnicities > peoples of Afghanistan and Turkestan > [adjective]
Pathan1625
Afghan1742
Rohilla1768
Kurdish1806
Kurd1810
Hindki1815
Mohmand1815
Chorasmian1816
Hazara1826
Kaffir1834
Afghani1838
Zakka Khel1860
Pakhtun1867
Powindah1880
Thamudite1881
Sart1898
Thamudaean1909
Tajik1911
Thamudic1937
the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Asia > native or inhabitant of Pakistan > [adjective] > parts of
Siddi1737
Mohmand1815
Wazir1815
Baluch1848
Pakhtun1867
1815 M. Elphinstone Acct. Kingdom Caubul iii. i. 354 The Currapa Pass, which leads from Peshawer to Jellallabad, is in the Momund country.
1898 Visct. Fincastle & P. C. Elliott-Lockhart Frontier Campaign xv. 190 It was of the greatest importance that the column should reach the Mohmand country as quickly as possible.
1978 Current Anthropol. 19 222 I have been directly and indirectly working for four years among the Mohmand tribe of Pakistan.
1991 L. W. Adamec Hist. Dict. Afghanistan 161 The Mohmand area was always autonomus and the British-Indian, as well as the Pakistan government, controlled the Mohmand Agency indirectly.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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