Gwadar

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A port city of Balochistan, Pakistan, situated along the Arabian Sea.
  2. A former colony of Muscat and Oman, from 1797 to 1958.

Word forms

Gwadar

Etymology

Borrowed from Urdu گوادر (gvādar), itself from Baluchi گوادر (gwādar), a compound of گوات (gwát, “wind, air”) + در (dar, “door, gateway”).

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