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Nuristani

Nuristani noun: any member of an ethnic group found mostly in the Nuristan, Laghman and Kunar provinces of Afghanistan, now generally Muslim but having once had an Indo-Iranian polytheistic religion.

Noun

Nuristani (plural Nuristanis)

  1. Any member of an ethnic group found mostly in the Nuristan, Laghman and Kunar provinces of Afghanistan, now generally Muslim but having once had an Indo-Iranian polytheistic religion.

Proper noun

Nuristani

  1. One of the three groups within the Indo-Iranian language family, the other two being Indo-Aryan and Iranian groups.

Forms of Nuristani

pluralNuristanis

Origin of Nuristani

From Persian نورستانی (nurestâni), from نورستان (nurestân) + ـی (-i, “of or pertaining to”), from نور (nur, “light”) + ـستان (-estân, “land of”).

Words formed from Nuristani

Questions about Nuristani

What does Nuristani mean?
Nuristani means any member of an ethnic group found mostly in the Nuristan, Laghman and Kunar provinces of Afghanistan, now generally Muslim but having once had an Indo-Iranian polytheistic religion.
What part of speech is Nuristani?
Nuristani can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of Nuristani?
The plural of Nuristani is Nuristanis.

Words near Nuristani in the dictionary

  1. nurhag
  2. nurhags
  3. Nuri
  4. nurikabe
  5. Nuristan
  6. Nuristani
  7. Nuristanis
  8. nurk
  9. nurks
  10. nurl
  11. nurled

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