Pamirs

[ pah-meerz ]

noun

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

Pamirs

/ pəˈmɪəz /

plural noun

1. the Pamirs
   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) Also known asthe Pamir

Example Sentences

In summer, like the Pamirs, they emerge from their winter's sleep and become a succession of grass-covered downs.

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However that may be, it is fairly certain that no great amount of trade ever crossed the Pamirs.

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Swat itself is a considerable province of Afghanistan, bordering on India, and just southwest of the Pamirs.

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These eastward continuations of the double border-range of the Pamirs are the constituent ranges of the Kuen-lun proper.

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The altitude at which other wild sheep are found is, however, very great; on the Pamirs it reaches twenty thousand feet.

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