Editing Doab (section)

{{short description|Land between two converging, or confluent, rivers}}
{{Other uses|Do Ab (disambiguation){{!}}Do Ab|DOAB}}
{{Use Indian English|date=June 2016}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2016}}
{{Infobox settlement
| name                    = Doab
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| settlement_type         = Natural region
| image_skyline           = Punjabdoabs1.jpg
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| image_caption           = A map showing the different ''doabs'' in the northern subcontinent
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'''''Doab''''' ({{IPAc-en|lang|ˈ|d|oʊ|ɑː|b}}) is a term used in [[South Asia]]<ref name=oed-doab-cite-1>{{citation|title=doab or duab, n.|publisher=OED Online, Oxford University Press |date=March 2014|url=http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/56229|access-date=24 April 2019}} Quote: "Originally and chiefly in South Asia: (the name of) a strip or narrow tract of land between two rivers; spec. (with) the area between the rivers Ganges and Jumna in northern India."</ref> for the tract<ref name=oed-doab-cite-2>{{citation|title=doab or duab, n.|publisher=OED Online, Oxford University Press |date=March 2014|url=http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/56229|access-date=24 April 2019}} Quote: "confluence, land between two rivers, used in India of the tongue of land between the Ganges and Jumna, and of similar tracts in the Punjab, etc., lit. ‘two waters’ "</ref><ref name=oed-doab-cite-1/> of land lying between two [[confluence|confluent]] rivers.  It is similar to an [[interfluve]].<ref name=doab-websters-unabridge>{{citation|title=Doab.|publisher=Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged.|year=2013|url=http://www.merriam-websterunabridged.com/unabridged/doab|access-date=24 April 2019}} Quote: " a tract of land between two rivers :  interfluve"</ref>  In the ''Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary'', [[R. S. McGregor]] refers to its Persian origin in defining it as ''do-āb'' ({{lang|fa|{{nq|دوآب}}}}, literally "two [bodies of] water") "a region lying between and reaching to the confluence of two rivers."