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Pashto

Definitions: Pashto

Pashto

Noun

1. A native or inhabitant of Afghanistan.

2. An Iranian language spoken in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 



Synonyms: Pashto

Synonyms: Afghan (n), Afghani (n), Afghanistani (n), Pathan (n), Paxto (n). (additional references)

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Commercial Usage: Pashto

DomainTitle

Books

  • Arthur Paul Afghanistan Collection Bibliography: Pashto and Dari Titles (reference)

  • Catalogue of the Urdu, Punjabi, Pashto, and Kashmiri manuscripts and documents in the India Office Library and Records (reference)

  • Dictionnaire Pashto Francais (reference)

  • Le Dzadrâni. Un parler pashto du Paktyâ (Afghanistan). (reference)

  • Pashto adab ki mukhtasar tarikh (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Pashto

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

Afghanistan

Dari is spoken by more than one-third of the population as a first language and serves as a lingua franca for most Afghans, though the Taliban use Pashto. (references)

Afghanistan

Dari (Afghan Persian) and Pashto are official languages. (references)

Afghanistan

Main languages: Dari (Afghan Persian), Pashto. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Pashto

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

pashto

54

music pashto

29

pashto song

19

bbc pashto

12

pashto dictionary

5

bbc.co.uk pashto

4

pashto poetry

4

com pashto

3

pashto translator

3

bbc front page pashto

3

adab pashto

3

name pashto

2

pashto language

2

bbc news pashto

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Pashto

Language Translations for "Pashto"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Portuguese

  

pachtu. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Pashto

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: pathos, potash.

Words within the letters "a-h-o-p-s-t"

-1 letter: hosta, oaths, opahs, paths, phots, shoat, staph, tophs.

-2 letters: atop, haps, hasp, hast, hats, hops, host, hots, oast, oath, oats, opah, opts, pash, past, path, pats, phat, phot, posh, post, pots, shat, shop, shot, soap, soph, soth, spat, spot, stoa, stop, taos, taps, toph, tops, tosh.

-3 letters: apt, ash, asp, hao, hap, has, hat, hop, hot, oat, ohs, ops, opt, pah, pas, pat, pht, poh, pot, sap, sat, sha, sop, sot, spa, tao, tap, tas, tho, top.

-4 letters: ah, as, at, ha, ho, oh, op, os, pa, sh, so, ta, to.

 Words containing the letters "a-h-o-p-s-t"
 

+1 letter: dashpot, teashop.

 

+2 letters: aphorist, aphthous, apothems, dashpots, haplonts, hardtops, hoptoads, hospital, hospitia, naphtols, parashot, pathoses, phaetons, phantoms, phaseout, phonates, phorates, pooftahs, postheat, potashes, potheads, potshard, shoptalk, snapshot, southpaw, spathose, stanhope, tapholes, taphouse, teashops, towpaths.

 

+3 letters: allopaths, antiphons, apholates, aphorists, apotheces, apothegms, atrophias, atrophies, cachepots, calthrops, cenotaphs, chassepot, crapshoot, ephorates, footpaths, grapeshot, hepatomas, heptagons, hospitals, hypoblast, hypocaust, hypotaxes, hypotaxis, isophotal, metaphors, naphthols, osteopath, pantheons, pantyhose, parashoth, pathogens, phaseouts, phosphate, photomaps, photomask, photopias, photostat, pistachio, plethoras, poachiest, polymaths, postcrash, posthaste, postheats, potlaches, potshards, shoptalks, snapshots, sociopath, southpaws, stanhopes, stopwatch, sweatshop, sycophant, taphouses, telophase, thiotepas.

 

+4 letters: anastrophe, aphoristic, apostrophe, apotheoses, apotheosis, arthropods, atmosphere, authorship, autographs, autotrophs, auxotrophs, cataphoras, catchpoles, catchpolls, chassepots, crapshoots, crosspatch, factorship, halophytes, haplotypes, homeopaths, hospitable, hospitably, houseplant, hypoblasts, hypocausts, hypostases, hypostasis, hypostatic, hypotonias, mouthparts, myopathies, osteopaths, osteopathy, parashioth, parathions, pastorship, patchoulis, patchworks, peashooter, phagocytes, phenolates, phonations, phosphates, phosphatic, photoflash, photograms, photomasks, photophase, photoplays, photostats, phototaxes, phototaxis, pistachios, polyanthas, polyanthus, posthastes, postlaunch, potlatches, prothallus, psychopath, rhapsodist, saprophyte, sociopaths, sociopathy, sweatshops, sycophants, telophases, toothpaste, toxaphenes, typographs.

 

+5 letters: anastrophes, anthropoids, antiphonals, antiphonies, antistrophe, apophthegms, apostleship, apostrophes, apostrophic, apotheosize, arthroscope, arthroscopy, arthrospore, atmosphered, atmospheres, atmospheric, authorships, camphorates, catastrophe, champertous, chloroplast, chromoplast, crapshooter, curatorship, diastrophic, diphosphate, euphoriants, factorships, grapholects, hectographs, hepatocytes, heptachlors, hierophants, homoplastic, homopterans, hospitalise, hospitality, hospitalize, houseparent, houseplants, hypertonias, hypogastric, hypoplastic, hypostatize, lithographs, lithophanes, lymphoblast, macrophytes, metanephros, methyldopas, misanthrope, misanthropy, morphactins, mycophagist, mythopoeias, naturopaths, nonhospital, ophthalmias, osteopathic, outpreaches, pantographs, parenthoods, pastorships, patchboards, patchoulies, pathologies, pathologist, peashooters, pentathlons, phagocytose, phosphatase, phosphatide, phosphatize, photographs, photomosaic, photomurals, photophases, photostated, photostatic, phyllotaxes, phyllotaxis, pictographs, polychaetes, polymathies, postharvest, postholiday, praetorship, prognathism, prognathous, prothoraces, prothoraxes, protohumans, psychopaths, psychopathy, radiophotos, rhapsodists, rhinoplasty, saprophytes, saprophytic, saxophonist, scyphistoma, senatorship, snapshooter, snapshotted, sociopathic, sophistical, spheroplast, spirochaete, spirochetal, stenography, stephanotis, stereograph, stopwatches, stylography, sycophantic, sycophantly, taphonomies, taphonomist, theophanies, thiopentals, toothpastes, trapshooter, trophoblast, tryptophans.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Pashto


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 61 73 68 74 6F

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01100001 01110011 01101000 01110100 01101111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#97 &#115 &#104 &#116 &#111

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0061 0073 0068 0074 006F

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

506785748681

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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