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-; closely related to *Parθaʰ (“Parthian”) and Old Persian 𐎱𐎠𐎼𐎿 (p-a-r-s /⁠Pārsaʰ⁠/, “Persian”), both from the earlier *Parsūa-, probably meaning "border or borderland" (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.
   • 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

• Arabic: بُشْتُوِيَّة‎ f (buštuwiyya)
• Armenian: փուշթու (pʿuštʿu)
• Azerbaijani: puştu
• Belarusian: пушту́ m (puštú)
• Bengali: পশতু (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) (paṣṭo)
• 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: 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

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