Nuristani

See also: nuristani

English

Etymology

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

Noun

Nuristani (plural Nuristanis)

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.

Proper noun

Nuristani

1. One of the three groups within the Indo-Iranian language family, the other two being Indo-Aryan and Iranian groups.