Brahmaputra

n. river in southern Asia

The Brahmaputra is a trans-boundary river and one of the major rivers of Asia.From its origin in southwestern Tibet as the Yarlung Tsangpo River, it flows across southern Tibet where it is known as Dihang to break through the Himalayas in great gorges. It flows southwest through the Assam Valley as Brahmaputra and south through Bangladesh as the Jamuna. There it merges with the Ganga to form a vast delta. About 1,800 mi (2,900 km) long, the river is an important source for irrigation and transportation. Its upper course was long unknown, and its identity with the Yarlung Tsangpo was only established by exploration in 1884-86. This river is often called Tsangpo-Brahmaputra river.
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Noun
1. an Asian river; flows into the Bay of Bengal
(synonym) Brahmaputra River
(hypernym) river
(part-holonym) China, People's Republic of China, mainland China, Communist China, Red China, PRC

n. Brahmaputra, river in southern Asia

Brahmaputra (Sanskrit) [from Brahma + putra son] In the Vedas, the son of a Brahmin, a member of the priestly caste. Also a son of Brahma, applied particularly to the prajapatis, the mind-born sons of Brahma, usually enumerated as seven. Blavatsky uses the term in a slightly different sense, referring to the Sons of God in connection with a certain Sacred Island in Central Asia (SD 1:209).
Also the name of one of the large rivers of India.