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Etymology
The name Afghan has been synonymous with Pashtun at least since the Islamic period though seventeenth century evidence ((1609): W. Finch, in Purchas, Vol I. 521)) seems to differentiate Awgan (Afghan) from Potan (Pathan). In Pashtun legend, Afghana, son of Qais Abdur Rashid and the supposed eponymous ancestor of the Afghans, is stated to be an early convert to Islam. The name Afghan however, is believed by many modern Indic scholars to have been derived from a Sanskritic term Ashvakan, meaning "horseman" though, some people claim its origin from the Turk |Turkic word "Avagan" (said to mean "Original") or else from the Latin word Alban (said to mean "mountaineers"), as supposed by H. W. Bellew. The suffix stan has the meaning "land" in Pers., so that Afghan + stan = Afghanistan, or "land of Afghans" (FAchar|ا�غا�ستا�).
See: w:List of country name etymologies|Wikipedia article on Etymology of Afghanistan. Also see: 1
Pronunciation
IPA|/æf�gænɪ�stæn/
Proper noun
Afghanistan
- A landlocked country in Central Asia. Official name: Afghanistan. Capital: Kabul. Official languages: Persian (Dari), Pashto.
Translations
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Afrikaans: Afghanistan
Albanian: Afganistani
Arabic: ARchar|أ�غا�ستا� (�af�anistá:n)
Armenian: Ô±Ö�Õ²Õ¡Õ¶Õ½Õ¿Õ¡Õ¶ (Afghanastan)
Asturian: Afganistán
Azeri: �fqanıstan
Basque: Afganistan
Belarusian: Ð�Ñ�ганÑ�Ñ�Ñ�ан (AÅhanistan) m
Bengali: �ফ�ানিস�তান
Bosnian: Afganistan m
Breton: Afghanistan
Bulgarian: ��гани��ан (Afganistán) m
Cantonese: ���
Catalan: l�Afganistan m
Cebuano: Afghanistan
Chinese: ��� (�fùhà n)
Chuvash: ��гани��ан
Cornish: Afghanistan
Croatian: Afganistan m
Czech: Afgánistán m, Afghánistán m
Danish: Afghanistan
Divehi: Þ�Þ¦Þ�Þ°Þ£Þ§Þ�Þ¨Þ�Þ°Þ�Þ§Þ�Þ°
Dutch: Afghanistan
Dzongkha: ཨ�����ིསི��ཱ��
Esperanto: Afganio, Afganistano, Afganujo
Estonian: Afganistan
Finnish: Afganistan
French: Afghanistan m
Frisian: Afganistan
Friulian: Afghanistan
Galician: Afganistán m
Georgian: ��������
German: Afghanistan n
Greek: ��γανι��άν (Afganistán) n
Gujarati: �ફ�ાનિસ�તાન (Afg�nist�n)
Haitian Creole: Afganistan
Hebrew: ×�פ×�× ×�ס×�×� (Afganistan)
Hindi: �फ़�ानिस�तान (Afg�nist�n)
Hungarian: Afganisztán
Icelandic: Afganistan
Ido: Afganistan
Ilocano: Afganistan
Indonesian: Afghanistan
Interlingua: Afghanistan
Irish: An Afganastáin
Italian: Afghanistan m, Afganistan m
Japanese: ������� (Afuganisutan)
Javanese: Afganistan
Kannada: �ಫ��ಾನಿಸ�ತಾನ
Kapampangan: Afghanistan
Kazakh: ���ан��ан
Khmer: á�¢á�¶á� á��á��á� á��á��á�¶á��á�¸á��á��á��á��á��
Korean: ������ (Apeuganiseutan)
Kurdish: Afganistan
Latin: Afgania f
Latvian: Afganist�na
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Limburgish: Afganistan
Lithuanian: Afganistanas
Low Saxon: Afghanistan
Luxembourgish: Afghanistan
Macedonian: �вгани��ан
Malay: Afghanistan
Malayalam: �ഫ��ാനിസ�ഥാന��
Maltese: Afganistan
Mandarin: ���
Marathi: �फ़�ानिस�तान (Afg�nist�n)
Min Nan: Afghanistan
Mongolian: ��гани��ан
Nahuatl: Afganist�n
Nauruan: Afganistan
Northern Sami: Afghanistan
Norwegian: #Norwegian|Afghanistan
Novial: Afganistan
Nynorsk: Afghanistan
Occitan: Afganistan
Ossetic: ��г�ани��ан
Pashto: PSchar|ا�غا�ستا� (Afghanestan)
Persian: FAchar|ا�غا�ستا� (Afghanestan)
Piemontese: Afgà nistan
Polish: Afganistan m
Portuguese: Afeganistão m
Pushto: ا�غا�ستا�
Quechua: Afgansuyu
Romanian: Afganistan n
Russian: ��гани��ан (Afganistán) m
Samogitian: Afgan�stans
Sanskrit: �फ�ानस�थान
Serbian:
Sicilian: Afganistà n
Scottish Gaelic: Afganastan
Slovak: Afganistan
Slovene: Afganistan
Spanish: Afganistán m
Sundanese: Apganistan
Swahili: Afghanistan
Swedish: Afghanistan
Tagalog: Afghanistan
Tajik: ���они��он (Af�oniston)
Telugu: �ఫ��నిస�తాన�
Tetum: Afeganistaun
Thai: THchar|à¸à¸²à¸�à¸�าà¸�ิสà¸�าà¸� (Ä�fkÄ�nit-sathÄ�n)
Turkish: Afganistan
Udmurt: ��гани��ан
Ukrainian: ��ган���ан (Afhanistan)
Urdu: ا�غا�ستا�
Uzbek: Afg`oniston
Venetian: Afganistan
Vietnamese: Afghanistan
Volapük: Lafganistän
Waray: Afganistan
Welsh: Affganistan
Wolof: Afganistaan
Yiddish: ×�פ×�×�× ×�ס×�×�×�
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Related terms
Afghan, Afghani
See also
Appendix:Countries of the world
Dutch
Proper noun
Afghanistan
- #English|Afghanistan.
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Italian
wikipedia|lang=it
Proper noun
Afghanistan m
- Afghanistan#English|Afghanistan
Alternative spellings
Afganistan
Derived terms
afgano / afghano
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Norwegian
Pronunciation
IPA|/�fg��nɪst�n/
Proper noun
Afghanistan
- #English|Afghanistan.
Related terms
afghaner
afghansk
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Swedish
Proper noun
Afghanistan
- #English|Afghanistan.
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