Pashtun

• Pushtun, Pashtoon, Pushtoon, Pushtun
• Pakhtun, Pukhtun, Pakhtoon, Pukhtoon

Borrowed from Pashto پښتون (pax̌tūn). Doublet of Pathan.

Pashtun (comparative more Pashtun, superlative most Pashtun)

1. Of or relating to the Pashtuns (a segmentary-lineage ethnic group currently numbering some 50 million people, which is the largest ethnic group in Afghanistan and the second largest in Pakistan), or to their culture.
   • 2007, Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns, BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING (2018), page 85:

     “What about Zalmai?” he said. “It’s a good Pashtun name.”

Pashtun (plural Pashtuns)

1. A person of an Iranic ethnic group native to Pashtunistan.
   • 2007, Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns, BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING (2018), pages 310–311:

     “They bring shame on me as a Pashtun. They’ve disgraced the name of my people.”

2. (informal) A Pashto-speaking person.

• Pathan (dated)
• Afghan
• Afghanistani

Pashtun

1. Pashto: the language of the Pashtun ethnic group.

• Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
• Pashto
• Pashtunism, Pashtunist
• Pashtunistan
• Pashtunwali