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Another view is that the name Afghan evidently derives from the word Aśvakan which means "horsemen", "horse breeders", or "cavalrymen" (from aśva or aspa, the Sanskrit and Avestan words for "horse"), or the Assakenoi of Arrian, which was the name used for ancient inhabitants of the Hindu Kush.
Afghans (Dari: افغانها; Pashto: افغانان) are the citizens and nationals of Afghanistan, as well as their descendants in the Afghan diaspora. [ 41 ] [ 42 ] [ 43 ] The country is made up of various ethnic groups, of which Pashtuns , Tajiks , Hazaras , and Uzbeks are the largest.
The following is a list of adjectival and demonymic forms of countries and nations in English and their demonymic equivalents.A country adjective describes something as being from that country, for example, "Italian cuisine" is "cuisine of Italy".
Afghan (ethnonym), the historic term applied strictly to people of the Pashtun ethnicity; Ethnic groups in Afghanistan, people of various ethnicities that are nationally Afghan; Afghan (biscuit) Afghan (blanket) Afghan coat; Afghan cuisine; Afghan Hound, a dog breed originating in parts of Afghanistan and the surrounding regions; Afghan rug
SIVs are granted to Afghans at risk of Taliban retribution because they worked for the U.S. government during the war that ended with the pullout of the last U.S. troops in August 2021.
The name Afghānistān (Dari: افغانستان, Afġānistān Dari pronunciation: [afɣɑnɪsˈtʰɑn]; Pashto: افغانستان Afġānistān Pashto pronunciation: [avɣɒnisˈtɒn, abɣɒnisˈtɒn] [note 1]) [1] means "land of the Afghans", [2] the name "Afghan" originally referred to a member of the Pashtuns.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Nearly 1,660 Afghans cleared by the U.S. government to resettle in the U.S., including family members of active-duty U.S. military personnel, are having their flights ...
The use of afghan in the English language for a textile object goes back to at least 1831, when Thomas Carlyle mentioned "Afghan shawls" in his Sartor Resartus. [3] By 1860, Afghan as a noun, not an adjective, denoted a type of handicrafted object shown at state fairs and other exhibitions, [ 4 ] along with patchwork and knitted quilts , and ...