Pashto
Americannoun
noun
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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
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a speaker of the Pashto language; a Pathan
adjective
Example Sentences
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An employee from the provincial education department said he had been using AI tools on his smartphone to translate between his native Dari and Pashto, the language used in government communications.
From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026
Here is a page from a U.S.-funded first-grade Pashto and math booklet created by University of Nebraska for kids in Afghanistan and Afghan refugee camps in Pakistan:
From Salon ● Dec. 13, 2025
Now, the network airs programming in four languages: Persian, Mandarin, Dari and Pashto.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2025
A traffic accident in western Afghanistan has killed 73 people, including 17 children, most of whom were on a bus carrying Afghan migrants deported from Iran, a Taliban official confirmed to BBC Pashto.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2025
From time to time, Rasheed greeted a shopkeeper he knew, sometimes in Farsi, other times in Pashto.
From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini
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