Nuristani

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any member of an ethnic group found mostly in the Nuristan, Laghman and Kunar provinces of Afghanistan, now generally Muslim but having once had an Indo-Iranian polytheistic religion.
name
  1. One of the three groups within the Indo-Iranian language family, the other two being Indo-Aryan and Iranian groups.

Word forms

Nuristani Nuristanis

Etymology

From Persian نورستانی (nurestâni), from نورستان (nurestân) + ـی (-i, “of or pertaining to”), from نور (nur, “light”) + ـستان (-estân, “land of”).

Derived words

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