Afganistan

Afganistan

1. Alternative spelling of Afghanistan

Afganistan

1. alternative spelling of Afghanistan: Afghanistan (a landlocked country between Central Asia and South Asia)

• Afgaan
• Afgaans

Afganistan m (definite Afganistani)

1. Afghanistan (a landlocked country between Central Asia and South Asia)

• afgan

Borrowed from Spanish Afganistán (“Afghanistan”), ultimately from Persian افغان (afġân, “Afghan”) or Arabic أَفْغَان (ʔafḡān, “Afghan”) + Persian ـستان (-estân, “place of”).

• IPA^(key): /afɡanis̺tan/ [af.ɣ̞a.nis̺.t̪ãn]

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• Rhymes: -is̺tan, -an
• Hyphenation: Af‧ga‧nis‧tan

Afganistan inan

1. Afghanistan (a landlocked country between Central Asia and South Asia)

• “38.- Munduko estatuen izenak, herritarren izenak, hizkuntza ofizialak eta hiriburuak [Names of the states of the world, nationalities, official languages and capitals]”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Arauak, Euskaltzaindia, 2019

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [əv.ɣə.nisˈtan]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [av.ɣa.nisˈtan]

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Afganistan m

1. Afghanistan (a landlocked country between Central Asia and South Asia)

• afganès

Borrowed from Spanish Afganistán.

Afganistan

1. Afghanistan (a landlocked country between Central Asia and South Asia)

From English Afghanistan, from Classical Persian اَفْغَانِسْتَان (afġānistān), from اَفْغَان (afġān, “Afghan”) + ـِسْتَان (-istān, “-istan: land of”).

• IPA^(key): /afˈɡanistan/

Afganistan

1. Afghanistan (a landlocked country between Central Asia and South Asia)

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /ɑfɡ̊ɑnisˈtɑːn/, [ɑfɡ̊ɑnʲisˈtɑːn]
• Rhymes: -ɑːn
• Hyphenation: Af‧ga‧nis‧tan

Afganistan (genitive Afganistani, partitive Afganistani)

1. Afghanistan (a landlocked country between Central Asia and South Asia)

Declension of Afganistan (ÕS type 22e/riik, length gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		Afganistan	—
accusative	nom.
	gen.	Afganistani
genitive			—
partitive		Afganistani	—
illative		Afganistani Afganistanisse	—
inessive		Afganistanis	—
elative		Afganistanist	—
allative		Afganistanile	—
adessive		Afganistanil	—
ablative		Afganistanilt	—
translative		Afganistaniks	—
terminative		Afganistanini	—
essive		Afganistanina	—
abessive		Afganistanita	—
comitative		Afganistaniga	—

• Afganistan in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

From Persian افغان (afġân, “Afghan”) or Arabic اَفْغَان (afḡān, “Afghan”) + Persian ـستان (-estân, “place of”).

Afganistan

1. Afghanistan (a landlocked country between Central Asia and South Asia)

From Persian افغانستان (afġânestân).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑfɡɑnistɑn/, [ˈɑ̝fɡɑ̝ˌnis̠tɑ̝n]
• Rhymes: -istɑn
• Syllabification^(key): Af‧ga‧nis‧tan
• Hyphenation^(key): Af‧ga‧nis‧tan

Afganistan

1. Afghanistan (a landlocked country between Central Asia and South Asia)

• afgaani

Afganistan

1. Afghanistan (a landlocked country between Central Asia and South Asia)

• IPA^(key): /ˈav.ka(ː)nɪ(ˌ)staːn/
• Rhymes: -aːn

Afganistan n (proper noun, genitive singular Afganistan or (equally common) Afganistans)

1. Afghanistan (a landlocked country between Central Asia and South Asia)

Afganistan

1. Afghanistan (a landlocked country between Central Asia and South Asia)

From Dutch Afghanistan, from Persian افغان (afġân, “Afghan”) or Arabic أَفْغَان (ʔafḡān, “Afghan”) + Persian ـستان (-estân, “place of”).

• IPA^(key): [afɡaˈnɪstan]
• Hyphenation: Af‧ga‧nis‧tan

Afganistan

1. Afghanistan (a landlocked country between Central Asia and South Asia)

• Afghanistan: nonstandard or standard Indonesian, standard Malay

• “Afganistan” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Afganistan m

1. alternative spelling of Afghanistan

• Afganistón

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.).

• IPA^(key): /av.ɡaˈɲis.tan/
• Rhymes: -istan
• Syllabification: Af‧ga‧nis‧tan

Afganistan m ?

1. Afghanistan (a landlocked country between Central Asia and South Asia)

• Jan Trepczyk (1994) “Afganistan”, in Słownik polsko-kaszubski (in Kashubian), volumes 1–2
• Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “Afganistan”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎^[1]

• IPA^(key): /af.ɡa.nɪsˈtaːn/

• Audio (Gozo):

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L-Afganistan m

1. Afghanistan (a landlocked country between Central Asia and South Asia; official name: Repubblika Iżlamika tal-Afganistan)

From French Afghanistan.

• IPA^(key): [afɡanistɑ̃]

Afganistan

1. Afghanistan (a landlocked country between Central Asia and South Asia)

• Afgan

Afganistan m

1. Afghanistan (a landlocked country between Central Asia and South Asia)

• afgan

Internationalism; ultimately from Classical Persian افغانستان (Afġānistān).

• IPA^(key): /av.ɡaˈɲis.tan/

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• Rhymes: -istan
• Syllabification: Af‧ga‧nis‧tan

Afganistan m inan (related adjective afgański or afganistański, demonym Afgańczyk, female demonym Afganka)

1. Afghanistan (a landlocked country between Central Asia and South Asia)

• Afganistan in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• Afganistan in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Afganistan n

1. Afghanistan (a landlocked country between Central Asia and South Asia)

• Avganìstān (Serbia)

• IPA^(key): /afɡanǐstaːn/
• Hyphenation: Af‧ga‧nis‧tan

Afganìstān m inan (Cyrillic spelling Афганѝста̄н)

1. (Bosnia, Croatia) Afghanistan (a landlocked country between Central Asia and South Asia)

• IPA^(key): [ˈafɡaɲistan]

Afganistan m inan (genitive singular Afganistanu, declension pattern of dub)

1. Afghanistan (a landlocked country between Central Asia and South Asia)

• “Afganistan”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

• IPA^(key): /aʋɡáːnistan/

Afgȃnistan m inan

1. Afghanistan (a landlocked country between Central Asia and South Asia)

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Masculine inan., hard o-stem
nominative	Afgánistan
genitive	Afgánistana
	singular
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	Afgánistan
genitive (rodȋlnik)	Afgánistana
dative (dajȃlnik)	Afgánistanu
accusative (tožȋlnik)	Afgánistan
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	Afgánistanu
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	Afgánistanom

• Afgánistanec / Afgánistanka
• afgánistanski

Afganistan

1. Latin spelling of Афганистан (Afganistan)

From Ottoman Turkish افغانستان (Afganistan).

• IPA^(key): /af.ɡa.nisˈtan/

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Afganistan

1. Afghanistan (a landlocked country between Central Asia and South Asia)

Other scripts
Latin	Afganistan‍
Cyrillic	Афганистан‍
Arabic	افغانستان

Afganistan

1. Afghanistan (a landlocked country between Central Asia and South Asia)

   Synonym: Owganystan