Afghan

Borrowed from Classical Persian افغان (afğān, “Afghan”), from Bactrian αβαγανο (abagano), first attested in the fourth century CE, most likely a compound of *apāka- (“distant, faraway”), from Proto-Iranian *Hapá, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hapá (“away”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó + *-āna (“ethnic group”), from Proto-Indo-European *-nós, thus: "people from a distant land".[1] Various scholars have proposed Sanskrit etymologies since the nineteenth century (especially prior to the 2007 publication of earlier Bactrian attestations for the word), but linguist Johnny Cheung notes that these are "extremely difficult to reconcile" with recent evidence pointing to a Bactrian source.

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈæfˌɡæn/, /ˈæfɡən/, /ˈæf(ˌ)ɡɑːn/

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• Rhymes: -æn, -ɑːn

Afghan (plural Afghans)

1. A person from Afghanistan.
2. (historical) A person of Pashtun ethnicity.
3. Synonym of Afghan Hound.

• Afghanization, Afghanisation

• Afghani, afghani

Afghan

1. Pashto, a language primarily spoken by Pashtun people in Afghanistan and northwestern Pakistan.
2. (UK, military slang) Clipping of Afghanistan.

   He will be in Afghan for another six months.

• Pashtun
• Pashto

Afghan (not comparable)

1. Of, from, or pertaining to Afghanistan.
2. Of, from, or pertaining to the Pashtun ethnic community.

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From Persian افغان (afğân).

• IPA^(key): /af.ɡɑ̃/

Afghan m (plural Afghans, feminine Afghane)

1. Afghan (resident or native of Afghanistan)

• “Afghan”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.