Beas

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A river of Himachal Pradesh and Punjab in northern India, rising in the Himalayas and emptying into the Sutlej.

Word forms

Beas

Etymology

From Hindi ब्यास (byās) or Punjabi ਬਿਆਸ (biāsa), both ultimately from Sanskrit विपाशा (vipāśā).

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