Pashto

Pashto

English

Alternative forms

• Pashtu, Poshto, Pushto, Pushtoo, Pushtu, Pakhto, Pukhto

Etymology

From Pashto پښتو‎ (paẍto).

Most likely derived from Old Iranian *Parsuwā, with the basic stem *Parsū-[1]; closely related to *Parθaʰ (“Parthian”) and Old Persian 𐎱𐎠𐎼𐎿 (p-a-r-s /Pārsaʰ/, “Persian”)[2], both from the earlier *Parsūa-, probably meaning "border or borderland"[3] (in contrast to Media, meaning "central land"); cf. Sanskrit (Pāṇini) Parśu- “a (northwestern) warrior tribe” and Late Babylonian 𒌓𒍪 (par-sú, “Persian”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpæʃtəʊ/, /ˈpʌʃtəʊ/

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Noun

Pashto (uncountable)

1. The native Indo-Iranian language of the Pashtun people; an official language of Afghanistan.

Related terms

• Pashtun

Translations

official language of Afghanistan

Arabic: بُشْتُوِيَّة‎ f (buštuwiyya) Armenian: փուշթու (pʿuštʿu) Azerbaijani: puştu Belarusian: пушту́ m (puštú) Bengali: পশতু (pôśôtu) Bulgarian: пущу́нски m (puštúnski) (език) Catalan: paixtu m Chinese: Mandarin: 普什圖語／普什图语 (zh) (pǔshítúyǔ) Dutch: Pasjtoe (nl) n Esperanto: paŝtua Estonian: puštu keel Finnish: paštu (fi) French: pachto (fr) m Galician: paxto (gl) m Georgian: პუშტუ (ṗušṭu) German: Paschtu (de) n, Paschto (de) n, Puschtu n, Paschtunisch (de) n (rare), Afghanisch n Hebrew: פַּשְׁטוֹ‎ f (pashto) Hindi: पश्तो (hi) f (paśto) Hungarian: pastu (hu) Icelandic: pasjtó f or n Ido: please add this translation if you can Japanese: パシュトー語 (ja) (パシュトーご, pashutōgo) Kazakh: пушту (puştu) Khmer: ប៉ាស្តូ (paahtou) Korean: 파슈토어 (ko) (pasyuto'eo) Kyrgyz: пушту (puştu) Latvian: puštunu valoda f, puštu Macedonian: паштунски m (paštunski) (јазик) Malay: Pashto Maltese: please add this translation if you can Oriya: ପାଷ୍ଟୋ (or) (paṣṭo) Pashto: پښتو‎ (ps) f (paẍto) Persian: پشتو‎ (fa) (pášto) Polish: paszto (pl) n Portuguese: pastó (pt) m, afegane m, afegão (pt) m Russian: пушту́ (ru) m (puštú), пашто́ m (paštó), пушту́нский (ru) m (puštúnskij) (язы́к) Serbo-Croatian: pàšto (sh) m Spanish: pastún (es) m, pasto (es) m Swedish: pashto (sv) Tajik: пушту (puštu), пашту (paštu) Telugu: please add this translation if you can Thai: พัชโต Turkish: Peştuca (tr), Afganca Ukrainian: пушту́ (uk) m (puštú) Urdu: پشتو‎ (ur) m (paśto) Uyghur: پاشتوچە‎ (pashtoche) Uzbek: pushtu, pashtu, pushtucha, pashtucha Vietnamese: tiếng Pashtun Volapük: pujt Zazaki: peştunki

See also

• Dari-Persian

References

1. G. Morgenstierne, “AFGHANISTAN vi. Paṣ̌tō”, Encyclopaedia Iranica, Online Edition, 1982
2. Kent, Roland G. (1950), “Parθava-”, in Old Persian: grammar, texts, lexicon, New Haven: American Oriental Society, page 196
3. I. Gershevitch, W. Bayne Fisher, J. A. Boyle: The Medes And Their Neighbours, in The Cambridge History of Iran, p. 61-62, Vol. II, 1985; Cambridge University Press

Further reading

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Pashto terms
• ISO 639-1 code ps, ISO 639-3 code pus (SIL)
• Ethnologue entry for Pashto, pus ⁠, a macrolanguage including:

• Ethnologue entry for Northern Pashto, pbu ⁠
• Ethnologue entry for Central Pashto, pst ⁠
• Ethnologue entry for Southern Pashto, pbt ⁠

Anagrams

• Potash, pathos, potash, sophta