Affghanistan

English

Proper noun

Affghanistan

1. Archaic spelling of Afghanistan.
   • 1840 Narrative of the war in Affghanistan in 1838-39 (volume 1) by Captain Henry Havelock; Henry Colburn, London, (1840)
   • 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 1, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:

     BLOODY BATTLE IN AFFGHANISTAN

   • 1873 (Jun), "Our Coming Guest", Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, page 715

     The line of conduct we have pursued for the last forty years in dealing with Affghanistan and Persia has been most injudicious.