أفغانستان

See also: افغانستان

Arabic

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian اَفْغَانِسْتَان (afġānistān).

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