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Qandahar

Qandahar is the alternative spelling of Kandahar.

Meaning of Kandahar

Proper noun

Kandahar

  1. A city, the capital of the province of Kandahar in southern Afghanistan.
    Synonyms:
    Alexandria, Alexandria Arachosia, Alexandropolis, Alexandria in Arachosia
  2. A province in southern Afghanistan.
    • “I’m from Kandahar myself. Have you ever been to Kandahar, hamshira? No? It’s lovely. What gardens! And the grapes! Oh, the grapes. They bewitch the palate.”2007, Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns, BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING (2018), page 309

Questions about Qandahar

What is Qandahar the alternative spelling of?
Qandahar is the alternative spelling of Kandahar.

Words near Qandahar in the dictionary

  1. qamutiq
  2. qamutiqs
  3. qanat
  4. qanats
  5. Qanbaliq
  6. Qandahar
  7. qandilite
  8. qango
  9. qangos
  10. qanon
  11. QAnoner

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Qandahar (page history and authors); Kandahar (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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