DARD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Dard mean? 

• DARD (noun)
  The noun DARD has 1 sense:

1. any of a group of Indic languages spoken in Kashmir and eastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan

  Familiarity information: DARD used as a noun is very rare.

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• DARD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of a group of Indic languages spoken in Kashmir and eastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Dard; Dardic; Dardic language

Hypernyms ("Dard" is a kind of...):

Indic; Indo-Aryan (a branch of the Indo-Iranian family of languages)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Dard"):

Shina (a Dardic language spoken in northern Kashmir)

Khowar (a Dardic language spoken in northwestern Pakistan)

Kafiri (a Dardic language spoken by the Kafir in northeastern Afghanistan)

Kashmiri (the official state language of Kashmir)