Panjshir

• Panjsher, Panjsheer

Borrowed from Iranian Persian پنجشیر (panjšir), from Classical Persian پنجشیر (panjšēr, literally “five lions”).

Panjshir

1. A place in Afghanistan
   1. Ellipsis of Panjshir Valley.; A region of Panjshir Province, Afghanistan
      • 2007, Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns, BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING (2018), page 108:

        The valley Mammy referred to was the Panjshir, the Farsi-speaking Tajik region one hundred kilometers northeast of Kabul.

   2. Ellipsis of Panjshir River.; A river in Panjshir Valley, Panjshir Province, Afghanistan
   3. (historical) Ellipsis of Panjshir District.; A former district of Parwan Province, Afghanistan; Former name of Panjshir Province.
   4. Ellipsis of Panjshir Province.; A province of Afghanistan