noun
Etymology
Origin of Pathan
C17: from Hindi
Example Sentences
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Shamshad Pathan, who represented the victims, said they would challenge the court's decision in a higher court.
From Reuters ● Apr. 20, 2023
Veteran Jammu and Kashmir bowler Ram Dayal mentored him, as did former India pacer Irfan Pathan.
From BBC ● May 2, 2022
Talk to a student and their family privately first, Pathan said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2022
His Pathan family hailed from Peshawar, in what became Pakistan after the Partition, and he visited his ancestral home in the late 1980s.
From Fox News ● Jul. 7, 2021
And five, six, yes fully nine hundred miles to the northward, lives the sister branch of the same caste—the men who swear by Pathan, Biluch, and Brahui, with whom they have shot or broken bread.
From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Rudyard Kipling
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