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Pukhto

Pukhto 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 Pukhto

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

Words near Pukhto in the dictionary

  1. pukeweed
  2. pukeworthy
  3. pukey
  4. pukhoor
  5. Pukhrambam
  6. Pukhto
  7. Pukhtoon
  8. Pukhtoons
  9. Pukhtun
  10. Pukhtuns
  11. puki

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Pukhto (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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