Pashto

English

Wiktionary

Pashto edition of Wiktionary

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

Borrowed from Pashto پښتو (paẍto).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpæʃtəʊ/, /ˈpʌʃtəʊ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

English Wikipedia has an article on:

Pashto

Wikipedia

Pashto (uncountable)

2. The native Indo-Iranian language of the Pashtun people; an official language of Afghanistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
   • 2007, Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns, BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING (2018), page 131:

     Tariq clenched his teeth and muttered something to himself in Pashto that Laila didn’t catch.

Related terms

• Pashtun

Translations

official language of Afghanistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Arabic: بُشْتُوِيَّة f (buštuwiyya) Armenian: փուշթու (pʻuštʻu) Azerbaijani: puştu Belarusian: пушту́ m (puštú) Bengali: পশতু (bn) (pośotu) 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, paŝtuna 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 Odia: ପାଷ୍ଟୋ (or) (pāshṭo) Pashto: پښتو (ps) f (paẍto) Persian: پشتو (fa) (pašto) 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: ปาทาน (th) 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

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