پاکستان
Baluchi
editProper noun
editپاکستان • (pākestān)
- Pakistan (a country in South Asia)
Central Kurdish
editProper noun
editپاکستان (pakistan)
- Pakistan (a country in South Asia)
Pashto
editPronunciation
editProper noun
editپاکستان • (pâkistân) m
- Pakistan (a country in South Asia)
Persian
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Urdu پَاکِسْتَان (pākistān), itself from پاک (pāk) + ـِستَان (-istān). By surface analysis, پاک + ـِسْتان.
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): [pɑː.kis.ˈtɑːn]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [pʰɒː.kʰʲes.t̪ʰɒ́ːn]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [pʰɔ.kʰis.t̪ʰɔ́n]
Readings | |
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Classical reading? | pākistān |
Dari reading? | pākistān |
Iranian reading? | pâkestân |
Tajik reading? | pokiston |
Proper noun
editDari | پاکستان |
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Iranian Persian | |
Tajik | Покистон |
پاکستان • (pâkestân)
- Pakistan (a country in South Asia)
Derived terms
edit- پاکستانی (pâkestâni)
Punjabi
editProper noun
editپاکستان • (pākistān) ? (Gurmukhi spelling ਪਾਕਿਸਤਾਨ)
- Pakistan (a country in South Asia)
Urdu
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Etymology
editCoined by Choudhry Rahmat Ali as an acronym of Punjab, "Afghania", Kashmir, Sindh and Balochistan. The name is also analyzed as پاک (pāk, “pure”) + ـستان (-stān, “land”).
Pronunciation
edit- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /pɑː.kɪs.t̪ɑːn/
Audio (Pakistan): (file) - Rhymes: -ɑːn
- Hyphenation: پا‧کِسْ‧تان
Proper noun
editپاکِسْتان • (pākistān) m (Hindi spelling पाकिस्तान)
- Pakistan (a country in South Asia)
Related terms
edit- پاکستانی (pākistānī, “Pakistani”)
- اسلامی جمہوریہ پاکستان (islāmī jamhūriya-e pākistān, “Islamic Republic of Pakistan”)
- پاک (pāk)
Descendants
edit- → Arabic: بَاكِسْتَان (bākistān), الْبَاكِسْتَان (al-bākistān)
- → English: Pakistan
- → Hindi: पाकिस्तान (pākistān)
- → Uzbek: Pokiston
- → Latin: Pācistānia, Pākistānia
See also
edit- (Indian subcontinent) بَرِّصَغِیر ہِنْد (barrisaġīr hind); بَن٘گْلَہ دیش (baṅgla deś), بُھوٹان (bhūṭān), بھارَت (bhārat), مالْدِیپ (māldīp), نیپال (nepāl), پاکِسْتان (pākistān), سِری لَن٘کا (sirī laṅkā) (Category: ur:Indian subcontinent)
Categories:
- Baluchi lemmas
- Baluchi proper nouns
- bal:Pakistan
- bal:Countries in Asia
- bal:Countries
- Central Kurdish lemmas
- Central Kurdish proper nouns
- ckb:Pakistan
- ckb:Countries in Asia
- ckb:Countries
- Pashto terms with IPA pronunciation
- Pashto lemmas
- Pashto proper nouns
- Pashto masculine nouns
- ps:Pakistan
- ps:Countries in Asia
- ps:Countries
- Persian terms borrowed from Urdu
- Persian terms derived from Urdu
- Persian terms suffixed with ـستان
- Persian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Persian lemmas
- Persian proper nouns
- fa:Pakistan
- fa:Countries in Asia
- fa:Countries
- Punjabi lemmas
- Punjabi proper nouns
- Punjabi proper nouns in Shahmukhi script
- pa:Pakistan
- pa:Countries in Asia
- pa:Countries
- Visual dictionary
- Urdu terms suffixed with ـستان
- Urdu terms with IPA pronunciation
- Urdu terms with audio links
- Rhymes:Urdu/ɑːn
- Rhymes:Urdu/ɑːn/3 syllables
- Urdu lemmas
- Urdu proper nouns
- Urdu masculine nouns
- ur:Pakistan
- ur:Countries in Asia
- ur:Countries
- ur:Indian subcontinent