Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A member of a traditionally nomadic Muslim people of Baluchistan.
- noun The Iranian language of the Baluchi.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A native or an inhabitant of Baluchistan, a country lying to the east of Persia and between Afghanistan and the Arabian sea; specifically, a member of one of the tribes of Baluchistan, a distinct race from the present dominant tribe, the Brahoes.
- noun The language spoken by the Baluchis and by over 300,000 British subjects inhabiting Sind and the Panjāb.
- noun Also written
Beloochee and Belooch.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun Alternative form of
Balochi .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an Iranian language spoken in Pakistan and Iran and Afghanistan and Russia and the Persian gulf
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Apart from these political shape of the country, there was an unparalleled development in art and architecture, literature and music, and particularly new social integration took place on the basis of the patronage of local languages, such as Baluchi, Sindhi, Panjabi, Pashto, Kashmiri, Shina and Burushaski.
Bloggers.Pakistan 2009
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For their parts, speakers of Baluchi live in Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan; Ossetic is chiefly spoken in the Russian and Georgian Caucasus.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Living languages of the Iranian subbranch include Farsi, Tajik, and Dari all descended from Middle Persian, the language of such celebrated poets as Rumi and Hafez, as well as Kurdish, Baluchi, Pashto, and Ossetic.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Living languages of the Iranian subbranch include Farsi, Tajik, and Dari all descended from Middle Persian, the language of such celebrated poets as Rumi and Hafez, as well as Kurdish, Baluchi, Pashto, and Ossetic.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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For their parts, speakers of Baluchi live in Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan; Ossetic is chiefly spoken in the Russian and Georgian Caucasus.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Population growth rate has not been different for Persians, Iranians kurds (like me), Azeris, Baluchi, Lor etc.
A Childish Question About Immigration, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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He blamed the attack on Baluchi nationalists -- a militant movement separate from the Taliban insurgency that has been fighting the central Pakistani government for years.
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He blamed the attack on Baluchi nationalists -- a militant movement separate from the Taliban insurgency that has been fighting the central Pakistani government for years.
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Any partition would also be resisted by many Afghans, including those Tajik, Baluchi, and Hazara minorities living in demographic "islands" within the mostly Pashtun south, as well as the Tajiks, Uzbeks, and others elsewhere in the country who want to keep Afghanistan free of Taliban influence.
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He blamed the attack on Baluchi nationalists -- a militant movement separate from the Taliban insurgency that has been fighting the central Pakistani government for years.
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