English Explanatory Dictionary

Afghania

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, a province in northwestern Pakistan
  2. North-West Frontier Province (official name of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa until 2010)

Word forms

Afghania

Etymology

From Afghan (“a person of Pashtun ethnicity”) + -ia (“land”). Coined by Choudhary Rahmat Ali who published it in the pamphlet Now or Never issued on January 28, 1933 as the "a" in Pakistan (then Pakstan). Compare Latin Afgania.

Related words

Gandhara
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