Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A province in northwestern Pakistan. Capital: Peshawar.

Pronunciation

/ˌkaɪbər pəkˈtuːŋkwə/

Word forms

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa KP KPK Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa

Etymology

Transliteration of Urdu خیبر پختونخوا (xaibar paxtūnxvā), from خیبر (xaibar, “Khyber”) + پختونخوا (paxtūnxvā, “Land of the Pashtun”), literally “the Khyber side of the Pashtun heartland”.

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