بلوچستان

From بلوچ (balōč / baluč, “Baloch”) +‎ ـستان (-istān / -estân).

بلوچستان • (balōčistān / balučestân) (Tajik spelling Балучистон)

1. Balochistan (a region on the Iranian plateau in south-western Asia, northwest of the Arabian Sea, dominated by desert and mountains, composed of southwestern Pakistan, southeastern Iran and a strip of southwestern Afghanistan; inhabited by the Baloch people)
2. Balochistan (a province of Pakistan)

Borrowed from Classical Persian بلوچستان (balôčistân), equivalent to بلوچ (baloc, “Baloch people”) +‎ ـستان (-(i)stān, “-land”).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /bə.loː.t͡ʃɪs.t̪ɑːn/

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• Rhymes: -ɑːn
• Hyphenation: بَ‧لو‧چِسْ‧تان

بَلوچِسْتَان • (balocistān) m (Hindi spelling बलूचिस्तान)

1. Balochistan (a province of Pakistan)
2. (by extension) Balochistan (a region between the Middle East and South Asia)
   1. Sistan and Baluchestan (a province of Iran)

      Synonym: سیستان و بلوچستان (sestān o balocistān)

   2. (rare) a mountainous region of Afghanistan

• “بلوچستان”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “بلوچستان”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.