Pashto
an Indo-European, Iranian language that is the official language of Afghanistan and the chief vernacular of the eastern part of the nation.
- Also Pushtu, Pushto.
Words Nearby Pashto
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How to use Pashto in a sentence
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.
Dozens of Traumatized Afghan Kids Struggle Inside a Shelter That’s Ill-Equipped to Care for Them | by Melissa Sanchez | October 28, 2021 | ProPublicaA former interpreter, Lughmani called up a guard he knew was working at the gates and asked in Pashto what was really going on.
An army of veterans and volunteers organizes online to evacuate Afghans, from thousands of miles away | Jonathan Baran, Alex Horton, Elizabeth Dwoskin | August 26, 2021 | Washington PostOur 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.
Heart of Darkness: Into Afghanistan’s Taliban Valley | Matt Trevithick, Daniel Seckman | November 15, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHe is an articulate, gifted speaker in his native Pashto, and is fluent in Persian and Arabic.
Afghan Elections: The Warlords Are Back | Ron Moreau, Sami Yousafzai | October 16, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
I remember speaking with Taliban mullahs: black beards, white turbans, Arabic inflection to their Pashto.
What the Frontier of Afghanistan Tells Us About the War | John Kael Weston | May 11, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTOn Thursday the Taliban website Al Emara posted a Pashto-language editorial headlined “Libertine Friend.”
British Dictionary definitions for Pashto
Pushto Pushtu
/ (ˈpʌʃtəʊ) /
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
plural -to, -tos, -tu or -tus a speaker of the Pashto language; a Pathan
denoting or relating to this language or a speaker of it
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