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Afghanisthan

Afghanisthan is the obsolete spelling of Afghanistan.

Meaning of Afghanistan

Proper noun

Afghanistan

  1. A landlocked country between Central Asia and South Asia. Official name: Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. Capital and largest city: Kabul.
    • 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.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...

Questions about Afghanisthan

What is Afghanisthan the obsolete spelling of?
Afghanisthan is the obsolete spelling of Afghanistan.

Words near Afghanisthan in the dictionary

  1. Afghanistan
  2. Afghanistani
  3. Afghanistanis
  4. Afghanistanism
  5. Afghanistanisms
  6. Afghanisthan
  7. afghanite
  8. afghanites
  9. Afghanization
  10. Afghanize
  11. Afghanizing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Afghanisthan (page history and authors); Afghanistan (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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