Pakistan

Borrowed from Urdu پاکستان (pākistān, “Land of the Holy”), from پاک (pāk, “pure, holy, immaculate, chaste, undefiled”) and Classical Persian ـستان (-stān,-istān, “-stan”). The word was coined by Pakistani politician Chuhdary Rahmat Ali in 1933, who published it in the pamphlet Now or Never as an acronym of the names of the "Muslim homelands" of western India—Punjab, Afghania, Kashmir, Sindh, and Balochistan. Absent from said acronym (which may possibly a backronym) is the letter ⟨i⟩, which is sometimes erroneously said to stand for the Indus, but it is in fact epenthetic.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌpɑːkɪˈstɑːn/, /ˌpækɪˈstɑːn/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌpɑːkɪˈstɑːn/, (proscribed) /ˈpækɪˌstæn/, (proscribed) /ˌpækɪˈstæn/

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• (Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈpækəˌstaːn/, /ˈpækəˌstæn/

Pakistan

2. A country in South Asia. Official name: Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Capital: Islamabad.
   • 2008 February 19, John F. Burns, “Britain: Life Sentence in Beheading Plot”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     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.

   • 2022 June 15, Rhea Mogul, “Pakistanis told to drink less tea as nation grapples with economic crisis”, in CNN‎^[2]:

     Sharif at the time said the decision “will save the country precious foreign exchange” and that Pakistan has to “practice austerity.”

• East Pakistan
• Hazara Pakistan
• Pakistani
• West Pakistan

• Countries of the world

• East Pakistan, West Pakistan

• Pakistan on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Pakistan on Wikiquote.Wikiquote
• Pakistan on Wikivoyage.Wikivoyage
• Category:Pakistan on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Pakistan (definite accusative Pakistanı, plural Pakistanlar)

1. Pakistan (a country in South Asia)

• pakistanlı

• Pakistan on the Azerbaijani Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^az

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [pə.kisˈtan]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [pa.kisˈtan]

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Pakistan m

1. Pakistan (a country in South Asia)

• pakistanès

• Pakistan on the Catalan Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^ca

Pakistan

1. Pakistan (a country in South Asia)

Pakistan

1. Pakistan (a country in South Asia)

• pakistaner
• pakistansk

• Pakistan on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

From Urdu and Persian پاکستان (literally “Land of the Pure”), from پاک (pak, “pure, holy, immaculate, chaste, undefiled”) and Persian ـستان (-estân, “-stan”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpʰaʰkistan/

Pakistan n

1. Pakistan (a country in South Asia)

From Urdu پاکستان.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɑkistɑn/, [ˈpɑ̝k̟is̠tɑ̝n]
• Rhymes: -ɑkistɑn
• Syllabification^(key): Pa‧kis‧tan
• Hyphenation^(key): Pa‧kis‧tan

Pakistan

1. Pakistan (a country in South Asia)

• pakastin, pankista, pinkasta

• IPA^(key): /pa.kis.tɑ̃/

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Pakistan m

1. Pakistan (a country in South Asia)

• Pakistanais
• pakistanais

Pakistan

1. Pakistan (a country in South Asia)

• IPA^(key): /ˈpaːkɪstaːn/

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Pakistan n (proper noun, genitive Pakistans or (optionally with an article) Pakistan, plural (rare) Pakistan)

1. Pakistan (a country in South Asia)

• pakistanisch
• Pakistaner
• Ostpakistan
• Westpakistan

• Pakistani

• “Pakistan” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

From English Pakistan.

• IPA^(key): /páː.kís.tàn/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [páː.cɪ́s.tàŋ]

Pākistàn f

1. Pakistan (a country in South Asia)

• IPA^(key): /ˈpa.kis.tan/, /pa.kisˈtan/^[1]
• Rhymes: -akistan, -an
• Hyphenation: Pà‧ki‧stan, Pa‧ki‧stàn

Pakistan m

1. Pakistan (a country in South Asia)

• pakistano

• IPA^(key): /pa.kɪsˈtaːn/

Il-Pakistan m

1. Pakistan (a country in South Asia; official name: Repubblika Iżlamika tal-Pakistan)

Pakistan

1. Pakistan (a country in South Asia)

• pakistaner
• pakistansk
• pakkis (offensive)

Pakistan

1. Pakistan (a country in South Asia)

• pakistanar
• pakistansk

• IPA^(key): /paˈkis.tan/

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• Rhymes: -istan
• Syllabification: Pa‧kis‧tan

Pakistan m

1. Pakistan (a country in South Asia)

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

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Pakistan

1. Pakistan (a country in South Asia)

• IPA^(key): /pâkistaːn/
• Hyphenation: Pa‧ki‧stan

Pȁkistān m inan (Cyrillic spelling Па̏киста̄н)

1. Pakistan (a country in South Asia)

• IPA^(key): [ˈpakistan]

Pakistan m inan (genitive singular Pakistanu, declension pattern of dub)

1. Pakistan (a country in South Asia)

• “Pakistan”, 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): /pâkistan/

Pâkistan m inan

1. Pakistan (a country in 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	Pákistan
genitive	Pákistana
	singular
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	Pákistan
genitive (rodȋlnik)	Pákistana
dative (dajȃlnik)	Pákistanu
accusative (tožȋlnik)	Pákistan
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	Pákistanu
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	Pákistanom

• Pákistanec / Pákistanka
• pákistanski

• “Pakistan”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
• “Pakistan”, in Termania, Amebis
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Pakistan

1. Pakistan (a country in South Asia)

   Synonym: Pakistani

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• Rhymes: -ɑːn

Pakistan n (genitive Pakistans)

1. Pakistan (a country in South Asia)

• pakistanier
• pakistansk
• pakistanska

• Pakistan in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• Svensk MeSH

Borrowed from English Pakistan, from Urdu پاکستان (pākistān).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈpakistan/ [ˌpaː.xɪsˈt̪an̪]
• Rhymes: -akistan
• Syllabification: Pa‧kis‧tan

Pákistán (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜃᜒᜐ᜔ᜆᜈ᜔)

1. Pakistan (a country in South Asia)

• “Pakistan”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

Pakistan

1. Pakistan (a country in South Asia)

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Pakistan

1. Pakistan (a country in South Asia)

• Pakistanlı