Pashto language

Pash·to (p

) also Push·tu (p

)

An Iranian language that is the principal vernacular language of Afghanistan and parts of western Pakistan. Also called Afghan.

[Persian pashtu, from Pashto pato, perhaps ultimately from Iranian *parswa-, border, border people.]

Pashto, Pushto [ˈpʌʃtəʊ], Pushtu

1. (Linguistics / Languages) a language of Afghanistan and NW Pakistan, belonging to the East Iranian branch of the Indo-European family: since 1936 the official language of Afghanistan

2. (Social Science / Peoples) (Linguistics / Languages) pl -to, -tos -tu, -tus a speaker of the Pashto language; a Pathan

adj

(Social Science / Peoples) (Linguistics / Languages) denoting or relating to this language or a speaker of it

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Noun

Pashto - an Iranian language spoken in Afghanistan and Pakistan; the official language of Afghanistan

Pashtu, Paxto, Afghani, Afghan

Iranian language, Iranian - the modern Persian language spoken in Iran

Jirga - a Pashto term for a decision making assembly of male elders; "most criminal cases are handled by a tribal Jirga rather than by laws or police"

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Afghan Afghani Afghanistan council ethnic minority Iranian Iranian language Jirga language Loya Jirga Pashtu Pashtun Pathan Paxto people Pushto Pushtu sangar Taliban	In his 7 minutes interview recorded in Pashto language, referring to the government allegations that funds were received from India, he spat on the notion of everything Indian because we are Muslims, and not pro-India or pro-US, adding, this is propaganda and the negative character of very people, who are themselves slaves (of India and USA) and sided with them. Curse on Indian financial aid: Qari by Balochistan Times (Baluchistan Province, Pakistan) The detainee, who can speak Urdu and Pashto languages, has admitted he is officer of the Pakistan Army. Cop kills two US soldiers in Wardak by Pajhwok Afghan News (Kabul, Afghanistan) Under the British Raj, the Pashto language seemed to have gone a pleasant renaissance as not only Pashto was translated to English but the closed compartments of the Afghan culture were opened to the rest of the world. The Pashto Language of Afghanistan by Ashraf Afghani / News, opinion and commentary community	Pascal's law of fluid pressures Pascal's triangle Pascal's wager Pascal, Blaise Pasch Pasch egg Pasch flower Pascha paschal Paschal candle Paschal celery paschal flower paschal lamb pase Paseng paseo pash pasha Pashalic pashalik Pashaw pashka pashm pashmina Pashto Pashto language Pashtoon Pashtu Pashtun Pasig Pasigraphic pasigraphy Pasilaly pasimology Pasionaria Pasiphae Pasiphaë Pask Pasmore paso doble PASOK Pasolini paspalum Paspalum dilatatum Paspalum distichum Paspalum notatum Paspy Pasque pasque flower pasqueflower Pasquil	Pashennaia, Vera Pashennaia, Vera Nikolaevna Pasherstnik, Aron Pasherstnik, Aron Efimovich pashes Pashiia pashing Pashino Pashitch, Nikola pashka Pashkevich, Vasilii Pashkevich, Vasilii Alekseevich Pashkevich, Vasilii Vasilevich Pashkov, Anatolii Pashkov, Anatolii Ignatevich Pashkov, Istoma Pashkovskii Pashkovskii Burial Grounds Pashkovtsy pashm pashmina pashminas Pashto Pashto Pashto Pashto language Pashtoon Pashtoon Pashtoonkhwa Milli Awami Party Pashtu Pashtun Pashtun Pashtun people Pashtun people Pashtunistan Pashtuns Pashtuns Pashukanis, Evgenii Pashukanis, Evgenii Bronislavovich Pashupata Shaivism Pashur Pashutin, Viktor Pashutin, Viktor Vasilevich Pashuto, Vladimir Pashuto, Vladimir Terentevich Pasi PASIA PASIC Pasic, Nikola PASIE

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Afghani
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ethnic minority
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Iranian language
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language
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Pashtun
Pathan
Paxto
people
Pushto
Pushtu
sangar
Taliban

In his 7 minutes interview recorded in Pashto language, referring to the government allegations that funds were received from India, he spat on the notion of everything Indian because we are Muslims, and not pro-India or pro-US, adding, this is propaganda and the negative character of very people, who are themselves slaves (of India and USA) and sided with them.

Curse on Indian financial aid: Qari by Balochistan Times (Baluchistan Province, Pakistan)

The detainee, who can speak Urdu and Pashto languages, has admitted he is officer of the Pakistan Army.

Cop kills two US soldiers in Wardak by Pajhwok Afghan News (Kabul, Afghanistan)

Under the British Raj, the Pashto language seemed to have gone a pleasant renaissance as not only Pashto was translated to English but the closed compartments of the Afghan culture were opened to the rest of the world.

The Pashto Language of Afghanistan by Ashraf Afghani / News, opinion and commentary community

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