Harappa

[ huh-rap-uh ]
/ həˈræp ə /

noun

a village in Pakistan: site of successive cities of the Indus valley civilization.
a Bronze Age culture that flourished in the Indus valley.

Example sentences from the Web for harappa

  • That's why you and your colleagues have never been able to translate the Harappa hieroglyphics; no such continuity exists there.

    Omnilingual |H. Beam Piper

  • We never found a university, with a half-million-volume library, at Harappa or Mohenjo-Daro.

    Omnilingual |H. Beam Piper

British Dictionary definitions for harappa

Harappa
/ (həˈræpə) /

noun

an ancient city in the Punjab in NW Pakistan: one of the centres of the Indus civilization that flourished from 2500 to 1700 bc; probably destroyed by Indo-European invaders