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Pashto

[ puhsh-toh ]

noun

  1. an Indo-European, Iranian language that is the official language of Afghanistan and the chief vernacular of the eastern part of the nation.


Pashto

/ ˈpʌʃtəʊ /

noun

  1. a language of Afghanistan and NW Pakistan, belonging to the East Iranian branch of the Indo-European family: since 1936 the official language of Afghanistan
  2. -to-tos-tu-tus a speaker of the Pashto language; a Pathan
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


adjective

  1. denoting or relating to this language or a speaker of it
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Example Sentences

Almost from the start, there has been one interpreter in every cottage who spoke Pashto, Dari or both, said Jennifer Vanegas, a supervising attorney at the Michigan Immigrant Rights Center’s program for immigrant children.

A former interpreter, Lughmani called up a guard he knew was working at the gates and asked in Pashto what was really going on.

Our Pashto interpreter explained how he had pretended to be a Pakistani policeman when interested crowds approached the compound.

Over the course of these meetings, Zalwar Khan, whose name in Pashto means brave leader, becomes more relaxed.

He is an articulate, gifted speaker in his native Pashto, and is fluent in Persian and Arabic.

I remember speaking with Taliban mullahs: black beards, white turbans, Arabic inflection to their Pashto.

On Thursday the Taliban website Al Emara posted a Pashto-language editorial headlined “Libertine Friend.”

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