Yamuna

English

Etymology

A transliteration of Sanskrit यमुना (yamunā), which is from यम (yama, “twin”), as the Yamuna runs in parallel with the Ganges.[1][2]

Pronunciation
  • (India) IPA(key): /jə.mʊ.ˈnaː/

Proper noun

Yamuna

  1. The largest tributary river of the Ganges in northern India.

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References
  1. Monier Williams (1899) “Yamuna”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, pages 846, 847.
  2. Arthur Berriedale Keith, Arthur Anthony Macdonell (1912) Vedic index of names and subjects, London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, W. [Published for the Government of India], →OCLC, page 186
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