Category:Pashto terms by usage

Pashto terms categorized by the manner and context in which they are used by speakers.

• Category:Pashto terms with archaic senses: Pashto terms with individual senses that are no longer in general use but still encountered in older literature, sometimes still used for special effect, and typically recognized by native speakers.
• Category:Pashto dialectal terms: Pashto terms that are not used in standard language but only in dialects.
• Category:Pashto formal terms: Pashto terms whose use is typically restricted to polite, ceremonious, non-casual contexts.
• Category:Pashto higher register terms: Pashto terms belonging to a higher linguistic register, such as literary terms; such terms are somewhat less common or known.
• Category:Pashto informal terms: Pashto terms whose use is typically restricted to casual, non‐ceremonious conversations.
• Category:Pashto nonstandard terms: Pashto terms that are considered improper, incorrect or commonly misused.
• Category:Pashto terms with obsolete senses: Pashto terms with individual senses that are no longer in use and not usually recognized by native speakers, but still sometimes found in older literature.
• Category:Pashto poetic terms: Pashto terms whose usage is typically restricted to works of poetry.
• Category:Pashto terms with rare senses: Pashto terms with individual senses that are rarely found in general use and may not be recognized by some native speakers.
• Category:Pashto slang: Pashto colloquial terms that are typically used to mark membership in a cultural subgroup.
• Category:Pashto vulgarities: Pashto terms whose tone (rather than the meaning) is offensive to polite company.