dhoon
(duːn)
Also dhun, doon, dun.
[Hind. dūn, ad. Hindī dūna valley.]
Any of the flat valleys lying parallel to the base of the Himalayas dividing the sub-Himalayan hills into two ranges; spec. the valley of Dehra.
| 1814 R. R. Gillespie Let. 29 Oct. in Asiatic Jrnl. (1816) II. 151/1 Me voici in the far-famed Dhoon, the Tempè of Asia; and a most beautiful valley it is. 1877 H. M. Elliot's Hist. India VII. 106 Khalilu-lla Khán..having reached the D{uacu}n. 1879 Medlicott & Blanford Geol. India II. xxii. 521 They consist of two ranges, separated by a broad flat valley, for which the native name ‘dun’ (doon) has been adopted in India. 1922 19th Cent. Jan. 46 In the lower valleys and hollows, or dhuns. |