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- Classical Persian · borrowed fromهِنْدُوکوه
- English todayHindu Koh
From Classical Persian هِنْدُوکوه (hindūkōh), itself a compound of هِنْدُو (hindū, “Hindu”) + کوه (kōh, “mountain”), literally “mountain of the Hindus”.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.