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Pushtun

Pushtun 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 Pushtun

Adjective
comparativemore Pushtun
superlativemost Pushtun
Noun
pluralPushtuns

Questions about Pushtun

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

Words near Pushtun in the dictionary

  1. Pushto
  2. Pushtoo
  3. Pushtoon
  4. Pushtoons
  5. Pushtu
  6. Pushtun
  7. Pushtuns
  8. pushup
  9. pushups
  10. pushwall
  11. pushwalls

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Pushtun (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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