English Explanatory Dictionary

Azad Jammu and Kashmir

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. An autonomous region administered by Pakistan, one of the two entities which form the Pakistani-Administered Kashmir, as well as part of the wider Kashmir, region.

Word forms

Azad Jammu and Kashmir Azad Kashmir Jammu and Kashmir

Etymology

Calque of Urdu آزاد جموں و کشمیر (āzād jammū̃ o kaśmīr, literally “free Jammu and Kashmir”), from آزاد (āzād, “free, independent”) + جموں (jammū̃) + و (o, “and”) + کشمیر (kaśmīr, “Kashmir”), from Persian.

Related words

Gilgit-Baltistan
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