Nuristani
See also: nuristani
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)
- 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
- One of the three groups within the Indo-Iranian language family, the other two being Indo-Aryan and Iranian groups.