pahareenn.
/pəˈhɑːriːn/, U.S. /pəˈhɑˌrin/ rare.
A female member of the Pahari people of the Himalayan regions of Nepal and northern India.
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1901 R. Kipling Kim iv, in McClure's Mag. Mar. 463/1 A pahareen—a hillwoman of Dalhousie, my mother.
1901 R. Kipling Kim xi. 266 I know the Punjab. My mother was a Pahareen, but my father came from Amritzar.
1944 G. E. Sen Voiceless India (rev. ed.) xvii. 394 The first number on the program was a song and dance by a Paharin—a hillgirl from Nepal.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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