brahmaputra

Questions about brahmaputra

What does brahmaputra mean?

brahmaputra means "an Asian river; flows into the Bay of Bengal".

How many syllables are in brahmaputra?

brahmaputra has 4 syllables and divides as brah-ma-pu-tra under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for brahmaputra?

Close synonyms include Brahmaputra River. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is brahmaputra a common word?

brahmaputra is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.