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Pathans

Pathans is the plural of Pathan.

Meaning of Pathan

Noun

Pathan (plural Pathans)

  1. (British, India, South-Asia) Synonym of Pashtun; a member of the Pashto-speaking people of today’s north-west Pakistan and south-east Afghanistan.
    • After long deliberation about the choice of nations, I became a “Pathán.”1855, Sir Richard Burton, Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah, Dover, published 1964, pages 44–5
    Synonyms:
    Pashtun

Questions about Pathans

What is Pathans the plural of?
Pathans is the plural of Pathan.

Words near Pathans in the dictionary

  1. Pathak
  2. Pathaks
  3. Pathan
  4. Pathanamthitta
  5. Pathankot
  6. Pathans
  7. pathbreaker
  8. pathbreakers
  9. pathbreaking
  10. pathbreakingly
  11. pathe

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Pathans (page history and authors); Pathan (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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