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Pakhtun

Pakhtun 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 Pakhtun

Adjective
comparativemore Pakhtun
superlativemost Pakhtun
Noun
pluralPakhtuns

Questions about Pakhtun

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

Words near Pakhtun in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Pakhtun (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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