Nuristani

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English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Persian نورستانی (Nūristānī), from نورستان (Nūristān) + ـی (-ī, “of or pertaining to”), from نور (nūr, “light”) + ـستان (-istān, “land of”).

Noun

Nuristani (plural Nuristanis)

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  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.
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