پاک

From Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (pʾk' /⁠pāk⁠/, “clean, pure, holy”), from Proto-Iranian *pawHākáh, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *pawHākás, from Proto-Indo-European *pewH- (“to cleanse, purify”). Cognate with Sanskrit पावक (pāvaká, “pure, clean, clear”), Latin purus.

پاک • (pâk)

1. clean, pure
2. innocent, clean-handed, sinless
3. holy
4. (dialectal) all

   پاک مردم رفتنه.

5. (dialectal) every
6. (dialectal) everyone

• پاکستان (pâkestân, “land of the pure”)
• پاک‌کن (pâk-kon, “eraser”)
• پاک کردن (pâk kardan, “to clean”)
• پاکیزه

• → Assamese: পাক (pak)
• → Azerbaijani: pak
• → Bengali: পাক (pak)
• → Gujarati: પાક (pāk)
• → Old Hindi: पाक (pāka)
  • Hindustani: pāk

    Hindi: पाक

    Urdu: پاک (pāk)

• → Maithili: pāk

  Devanagari script: पाक

  Tirhuta script: 𑒣𑒰𑒏

• → Old Punjabi: ਪਾਕੁ (pāku)
  • Punjabi: pāk

    Gurmukhi script: ਪਾਕ

    Shahmukhi script: پاک

• → Sindhi:

  Arabic script: پاڪُ

  Devanagari script: पाकु

• → Sylheti: ꠙꠣꠇ (fax)
• → Ottoman Turkish: پاك (pak)
  • Turkish: pak
  • → Armenian: փաք (pʻakʻ)
  • → Laz: ფაღი (paği)
• → Uyghur: پاك (pak)
• → Uzbek: pok

• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “pāk”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 64.

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /pɑːk/
• Rhymes: -ɑːk

Borrowed from Classical Persian پَاک (pāk). First attested in c. 1265 as Old Hindi پاک (pak /⁠pāk⁠/).^[1]

پَاک • (pāk) (indeclinable, Hindi spelling पाक)

1. clean, pure

Shortening of پَاکِسْتَان (pākistān), itself from پاک (pāk) +‎ ـِسْتَان (-istān).

پَاک • (pāk) m (Hindi spelling पाक)

1. clipping of پاکستان

   پاک فَوج ― pāk fauj ― Pakistan army

• “پاک”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• Fallon, Platts, Qureshi, Shakespear (2024) “پاک”, in Digital Dictionaries of South Asia [Combined Urdu Dictionaries]

From Urdu پاک (pāk).

پاک (pāk)

1. bright, pure