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Pashtu

Pashtu is the alternative spelling of Pashto.

Meaning of Pashto

Proper noun

Pashto (uncountable)

  1. The native Indo-Iranian language of the Pashtun people; an official language of Afghanistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
    • Tariq clenched his teeth and muttered something to himself in Pashto that Laila didn’t catch.2007, Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns, BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING (2018), page 131

Questions about Pashtu

What is Pashtu the alternative spelling of?
Pashtu is the alternative spelling of Pashto.

Words near Pashtu in the dictionary

  1. pashta
  2. pashtas
  3. Pashto
  4. Pashtoon
  5. Pashtoons
  6. Pashtu
  7. Pashtun
  8. Pashtunism
  9. Pashtunist
  10. Pashtunistan
  11. Pashtunistani

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Pashtu (page history and authors); Pashto (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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