Definition of Pushtun

1. Noun. A member of the mountain people living in the eastern regions of Afghanistan. "Pathans are the predominant ethnic group in Afghanistan"

Exact synonyms: Pashtoon, Pashtun, Pathan
Generic synonyms: Afghan, Afghanistani

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pushtun

Purple
Purple Heart
Purple Hearts
Purus
Purus River
Purvey
Pusan
Pusey
Puseyism
Puseyite
Puseyites
Pushan
Pushkin
Pushto
Pushtu
Pushtun
Puter
Putin
Putinism
Putonghua
Putrajaya
Putre
Putukwam
Puy-de-Dôme
Pway
Pycnanthemum
Pycnanthemum virginianum
Pycnogonida
Pydna
Pygmalion

Literary usage of Pushtun

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Afghanistan's Two-Party Communism: Parcham and Khalq by Anthony Arnold (1983)
"... contrary to the will of the Baluch and pushtun peoples and ... the Baluch and pushtun leaders into prison and proclaimed the illegal [sic—illegal the? ..."

2. Afghanistan: The First Five Years of Soviet Occupation by J. Bruce Amstutz (1994)
"pushtun tribes occupying the provinces bordering Pakistan had wielded ... The possibility that pushtun dominance would continue in any post-Soviet ..."

3. The Races of the Old World: A Manual of Ethnology by Charles Loring Brace (1863)
"This people are directly descended from an ancient Aryan race, and are allied to the Iranians or Persians. They call themselves pushtun, which has been ..."

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