Mazar-i-Sharif

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A city, the provincial capital of Balkh Province, Afghanistan.

Word forms

Mazar-i-Sharif Mazar-e-Sharif

Etymology

From Classical Persian مَزَارِ شَرِیف (mazār-i šarīf, “noble shrine”).

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