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As noted by Josef Elfenbein, "Loanwords have been traced in Pashto as far back as the third century B.C., and include words from Greek and probably Old Persian". [87] For instance, Georg Morgenstierne notes the Pashto word مېچن mečə́n i.e. a hand-mill as being derived from the Ancient Greek word μηχανή (mēkhanḗ, i.e. a device). [88]
[6] The word finally yielded Ghəljī and Ghəlzay in Pashto. According to a popular folk etymology, the name Ghəljī or Ghəlzay is derived from Gharzay (غرزی; ghar means "mountain" while -zay means "descendant of"), a Pashto name meaning "born of mountain" or "hill people." [7]
The ethnonym Afghan (Dari Persian/Pashto: افغان) has been used historically to refer to the Pashtuns. [1] Since the second half of the twentieth century, the term " Afghan " evolved into a demonym for all residents of Afghanistan , including those outside of the Pashtun ethnicity.
The language has ancient origins and bears similarities to extinct languages such as Avestan and Bactrian. [285] Its closest modern relatives may include Pamir languages, such as Shughni and Wakhi, and Ossetic. [286] Pashto may have ancient legacy of borrowing vocabulary from neighbouring languages including such as Persian and Vedic Sanskrit ...
The word Afghan is mentioned in the form of Abgan in the third century CE by the Sassanians [9] and as Avagana (Afghana) in the 6th century CE by Indian astronomer Varahamihira. [4] A people called the Afghans are mentioned several times in a 10th-century geography book , Hudud al-'Alam , particularly where a reference is made to a village ...
Pashtunistan (Pashto: پښتونستان, lit. 'land of the Pashtuns') [4] or Pakhtunistan is a historical region on the crossroads of Central and South Asia, located on the Iranian Plateau, inhabited by the Pashtun people of southern and eastern Afghanistan [5] and northwestern Pakistan, [6] [7] wherein Pashtun culture, the Pashto language, and identity have been based.
Pages in category "Pashto words and phrases" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Afghan (ethnonym) K.
The Hephthalites may have been Indo-Iranian, [50] although the view that they were of Turkic Gaoju origin [51] "seems to be most prominent at present". [52] The Khalaj may originally have been Turkic-speaking and only federated with Iranian Pashto-speaking tribes in medieval times. [53]