Afghan
Afghan hound
Meanings
Noun
- A person from Afghanistan or of Afghan descent.
- A person of Pashtun ethnicity or of Pashtun descent.
- Synonym of Afghan Hound.
Proper Noun
- Pashto, a language primarily spoken by Pashtun people in Afghanistan and northwestern Pakistan.
- Short form of Afghanistan
Adjective
- Of, from, or pertaining to Afghanistan.
- Of, from, or pertaining to the Pashtun ethnic community.
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Origin
- Borrowed from Persian افغان ("Afghan"), from Bactrian αβαγανο, first attested in the fourth century CE, most likely a compound of *apāka- + *-āna: "people from a distant land". Various scholars have proposed Sanskrit etymologies since the nineteenth century (especially prior to the 2007 publication of earlier Bactrian attestations for the word), but linguist Johnny Cheung notes that these are "extremely difficult to reconcile" with recent evidence pointing to a Bactrian source.
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