Afghanistan

• Affghanistan, Affghanisthan, Affghaunistan, Afghanisthan, Afghaunistan (all obsolete)
• Afganistan

From Classical Persian اَفْغَانِسْتَان (afġānistān), from اَفْغَان (afġān, “Afghan”) + ـِسْتَان (-istān, “-istan: land of”), equivalent to Afghan +‎ -i- +‎ -stan.

• IPA^(key): /æfˈɡɑːn.ɪˌstɑːn/, /æfˈɡæn.ɪˌstɑːn/, /æfˈɡæn.ɪˌstæn/

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Afghanistan

2. A landlocked country between Central Asia and South Asia. Official name: Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. Capital and largest city: Kabul. [from 1768]
   • 1768, Mahummud Casim Ferishta, translated by Alexander Dow, “The Reign of Chusero Malleck, ben Chusero Shaw”, in The History of Hindostan; from the Earliest Account of Time, to the Death of Akbar; […], volume I, London: […] T. Becket and P. A. De Hondt, […], →OCLC, page 141:

     But Shahab ul dien Mahummud, brother to the Prince of Ghor, invaded the kingdom of Ghizni, which he conquered, and not ſatisfied with that, marched an army into Hindoſtan, overrunning Piſhawir, Afghaniſtan, Moultan and Sind.

   • 1781 October 22, “From the Delhi Gazette, Calcutta”, in The Remembrancer; or, Impartial Repository of Public Events. For the Year 1782., part II, London: […] J[ohn] Debrett, […], published 1782, →OCLC, page 43, column 1:

     This Timoor Shah is the ſon of the famous Ahmed Shah Abdalee, who was formerly in the ſervice of Nadir Shah, and upon the aſſaſſination of that monarch, ſeized the vaſl treaſures which had been depoſited in the Caſtle Herat, and carried them off into the mountains of Afghaniſtan, where his ſtandard was preſently joined by numbers of needy followers, and with this army he ſoon founded an independent kingdom to the eaſtward of Perſia.

   • 1790, George Forster, “Preface”, in A Journey from Bengal to England, through the Northern Part of India, Kashmire, Afghanistan, and Persia; and into Russia, by the Caspian Sea. […], volume I, Calcutta: […] Press of Cooper and Upjohn, →OCLC, page 5:

     I am now arranging, and endeavouring to render worthy of the notice of the public, a ſecond volume, which contains a relation of my journey from Kaſhmire to England, through Afghaniſtan, Perſia, and Ruſſia.

   • 2008 February 19, John F[isher] Burns, “Britain: Life Sentence in Beheading Plot”, in The New York Times‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 November 2022:

     Described by witnesses as a keen cricketer and pubgoer until contacts with Islamic militants radicalized him on a trip to Pakistan, he was ordered to serve at least 14 years for the plot, and for supplying militants in Afghanistan with money and equipment.

• Graveyard of Empires

• → Hawaiian: ʻApekanikana
• →? Translingual: AF, AFG

• Appendix:Countries of the world

• Afganistan

Afghanistan

1. Afghanistan (a landlocked country between Central Asia and South Asia; capital: Kaboel)

• Afghaan
• Afghaans

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• IPA^(key): /ɑfˈxaːniˌstɑn/

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• Hyphenation: Af‧gha‧ni‧stan

Afghanistan n

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

Ultimately from Classical Persian افغانستان (afġānistān).

• IPA^(key): /af.ɡa.nis.tɑ̃/

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• Rhymes: -ɑ̃

l'Afghanistan m

1. Afghanistan (a landlocked country between Central Asia and South Asia; capital: Kaboul)

   aller en Afghanistan ― to go to Afghanistan

• afghan, Afghan

• IPA^(key): /afˈɡaːnɪstaːn/

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• Hyphenation: Af‧gha‧ni‧s‧tan

Afghanistan n (proper noun, genitive Afghanistans or (optionally with an article) Afghanistan)

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

• “Afghanistan” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

• Afganistan

• IPA^(key): /afˈɡa.nis.tan/, (traditional) /af.ɡa.nisˈtan/^[1]

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• Rhymes: -anistan, (traditional) -an
• Hyphenation: Af‧ghà‧ni‧stan, (traditional) Af‧gha‧ni‧stàn

Afghanistan m

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

• afgano, afghano

Afghanistan n

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

Afghanistan

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

• IPA^(key): /ɑf.ˈɡɑ.nɪ.stɑn/

Afghanistan

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

Afghanistan

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

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Afghanistan n (genitive Afghanistans)

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

• Afghanistan in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
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