Brahmaputra

• Burrampooter (obsolete)

Borrowed from Sanskrit ब्रह्मपुत्र (brahmaputra, “son of Brahma”), from ब्रह्मा (brahmā, “Brahma”) + पुत्र (putra, “son”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbɹɑː.məˌpuː.tɹə/

Brahmaputra

1. A river which flows through Tibet, India and Bangladesh.
   • 1973, Chiao-min Hsieh, “Tibet”, in Christopher L. Salter, editor, Atlas of China‎, McGraw-Hill, Inc., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 198:

     Jih-k’a-tse, Tibet’s second largest city, is located on the Brahmaputra southwest of Lhasa, in Tibet’s major grain-producing area, with highland barley as the major grain.

• (upper stream) Yarlung Tsangpo, Yarlung Zangbo

Brahmaputra (plural Brahmaputras)

1. A domestic fowl, the Brahmapootra.