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Affghan

Affghan is the obsolete spelling of Afghan.

Meaning of Afghan

Noun

Afghan (plural Afghans)

  1. A native or inhabitant of Afghanistan; a person of Afghan citizenship or nationality and their descendants.
    • Four cases of measles – a highly contagious virus – have also been discovered among Afghans who recently arrived in the US, prompting the administration to temporarily pause flights of Afghan refugees to the US.2021 September 13, Priscilla Alvarez and Oren Liebermann, “Inside the effort to resettle thousands of Afghans in the United States”, in CNN
  2. (dated) A person of Pashtun ethnicity.
  3. Synonym of Afghan rug.
    Synonyms:
    Afghan rug
  4. Synonym of Afghan Hound.
    Synonyms:
    Afghan Hound
  5. Synonym of Afghan coat.
    Synonyms:
    Afghan coat

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Forms of Affghan

pluralAffghans

Questions about Affghan

What is Affghan the obsolete spelling of?
Affghan is the obsolete spelling of Afghan.

Words near Affghan in the dictionary

  1. afferents
  2. Affery
  3. affetti
  4. affettuoso
  5. AFFF
  6. Affghan
  7. Affghanistan
  8. Affghanisthan
  9. Affghans
  10. Affghaunistan
  11. affiance

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Affghan (page history and authors); Afghan (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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