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Pakhtoon

Pakhtoon is the alternative form of Pashtun.

Meaning of Pashtun

Adjective

Pashtun (comparative more Pashtun, superlative most Pashtun)

  1. Of or relating to the Pashtuns (a segmentary-lineage ethnic group currently numbering some 50 million people, which is the largest ethnic group in Afghanistan and the second largest in Pakistan), or to their culture.
    • “What about Zalmai?” he said. “It’s a good Pashtun name.”2007, Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns, BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING (2018), page 85

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Forms of Pakhtoon

Adjective
comparativemore Pakhtoon
superlativemost Pakhtoon
Noun
pluralPakhtoons

Questions about Pakhtoon

What is Pakhtoon the alternative form of?
Pakhtoon is the alternative form of Pashtun.

Words near Pakhtoon in the dictionary

  1. pakhawajs
  2. Pakhoi
  3. Pakhom
  4. Pakhons
  5. Pakhto
  6. Pakhtoon
  7. Pakhtoons
  8. Pakhtun
  9. Pakhtunistan
  10. Pakhtuns
  11. paki

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Pakhtoon (page history and authors); Pashtun (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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