Kashmiri

From Srinagar's region

Kashmiri refers to people, culture, or things from Kashmir, a mountainous region in South Asia disputed between India, Pakistan, and China.

As a noun, Kashmiri is a person from the region or the Dardic language spoken there: She speaks Kashmiri at home.

Kashmiri cuisine, textiles, and shawls are renowned: a Kashmiri wool carpet.

cuisine

rogan josh

Braised meat in red sauce

  • harissaNorth African chili paste
  • morelPitted edible fungus
  • saagSouth Asian cooked greens
heritage

pashmina

Soft Himalayan goat fiber

carpet weaving · copperware · craftsmanship · artisan · woodcarving · silverwork · architecture

region

valley

Low ground between heights

language

proverbs

Traditional wisdom capsules

Indo-Aryan · literature · folk songs · vocabulary

people

migration

Movement to new territory

  • diasporaScattered population sharing origins
  • SufismIslamic spiritual mysticism
  • clanRelated group sharing ancestry

kinship · ancestry · lineage · indigenous · community · identity

Categories
Opposites
south asian linguistic identity

KashmiriTamil

South Indian language

Hindi · Urdu · Bengali · Gujarati · Telugu

regional identity within kashmir conflict

KashmiriPunjabi

Indo-Aryan language, Pakistan's majority

Indian · Pakistani

Phrases
Family

Kashmir

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G