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Purshawar

Purshawar is the archaic form of Peshawar.

Meaning of Peshawar

Proper noun

Peshawar

  1. A city, the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.

Questions about Purshawar

What is Purshawar the archaic form of?
Purshawar is the archaic form of Peshawar.

Words near Purshawar in the dictionary

  1. pursewing
  2. pursews
  3. Pursey
  4. Pursglove
  5. Pursh
  6. Purshawar
  7. Purshouse
  8. Purshouses
  9. pursier
  10. pursiest
  11. Pursifull

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Purshawar (page history and authors); Peshawar (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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