أفغانستان

See also: افغانستان

Arabic

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian اَفْغَانِسْتَان (afğānistān).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʔaf.ɣaː.nis.taːn/

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Proper noun

أَفْغَانِسْتَان • (ʔafḡānistān) f

1. Afghanistan (A landlocked country between Central Asia and South Asia)

Declension

Declension of noun أَفْغَانِسْتَان (ʔafḡānistān)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	—	أَفْغَانِسْتَان ʔafḡānistān	—
Nominative	—	أَفْغَانِسْتَانٌ ʔafḡānistānun	—
Accusative	—	أَفْغَانِسْتَانًا ʔafḡānistānan	—
Genitive	—	أَفْغَانِسْتَانٍ ʔafḡānistānin	—

See also

• أَفْغَانِيّ (ʔafḡāniyy)

 

References

• Wehr, Hans (1979) “أفغانستان”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

Further reading

• أفغانستان on the Arabic Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^ar