Pakistan

See also: Pakistán, Pákistán, and Päkistan

State emblem of Pakistan

English

A map of Pakistan

Etymology

From Urdu پاکستان‎ (pākistān, “Land of the Pure”), from پاک‎ (pak, “pure, holy, immaculate, chaste, undefiled”) and ستان‎ (-stân, “-stan”), which derive from Persian. The word was coined by Choudhary Rahmat Ali, who published it in the pamphlet Now or Never issued on January 28, 1933, as an acronym of the names of the "Muslim homelands" of western India—Punjab, Afghania, Kashmir, Sindh, and Balochistan. An i was later added to the name to ease pronunciation.

Pronunciation

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• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌpɑːkɪˈstɑːn/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈpækɪsˌtæn/

Proper noun

Pakistan

2. Country in South Asia. Official name: Islamic Republic of Pakistan.

Related terms

• Pakistani

Translations

country in South Asia

• Abkhaz: Пакистан (Ṗāḳisṭān)
• Acehnese: Pakistan
• Afrikaans: Pakistan
• Albanian: Pakistan m
• Amharic: ፓኪስታን (pakistan)
• Arabic: بَاكِسْتَان‎ f (bākistān), الْبَاكِسْتَان‎ f (al-bākistān)
• Aramaic: ܦܐܩܣܛܐܢ‎
• Armenian: Պակիստան (Pakistan)
• Assamese: পাকিস্তান (pakistan)
• Asturian: Paquistán (ast)
• Azerbaijani: Pakistan (az)

  Cyrillic: Пакистан

• Baluchi: پاکستان‎ (pākestān)
• Bashkir: Пакистан (Pakistan)
• Belarusian: Пакіста́н m (Pakistán)
• Bengali: পাকিস্তান (pakistan)
• Bikol Central: Pakistan
• Breton: Pakistan
• Bulgarian: Пакиста́н (bg) m (Pakistán)
• Burmese: ပါကစ္စတန် (pakacca.tan)
• Catalan: Pakistan (ca)
• Cebuano: Pakistan
• Chavacano: Pakistan
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 巴基斯坦 (baa¹ gei¹ si¹ taan²)

  Mandarin: 巴基斯坦 (zh) (Bājīsītǎn)

• Cornish: Pakistan
• Crimean Tatar: Pakistan
• Czech: Pákistán (cs) m
• Danish: Pakistan (da)
• Dhivehi: ޕާކިސްތާން‎ (pākistān)
• Dutch: Pakistan (nl)
• Dzongkha: པ་ཀིསི་ཏཱན། (pa kisi tān)
• Esperanto: Pakistano (eo)
• Estonian: Pakistan (et)
• Fiji Hindi: Pakistan
• Finnish: Pakistan (fi)
• French: Pakistan (fr) m
• Galician: Paquistán (gl) m
• Georgian: პაკისტანი (ka) (ṗaḳisṭani)
• German: Pakistan (de) n
• Greek: Πακιστάν (el) n (Pakistán)
• Greenlandic: Pakistan
• Gujarati: પાકિસ્તાન (pākistān)
• Hausa: Pakistan
• Hawaiian: Pakitana
• Hebrew: פָּקִיסְטָן‎ m (pakistán)
• Hindi: पाकिस्तान (hi) m (pākistān)
• Hungarian: Pakisztán (hu)
• Icelandic: Pakistan (is)
• Ido: Pakistan (io)
• Ilocano: Pakistan
• Indonesian: Pakistan (id)
• Interlingua: Pakistan
• Interlingue: Pakistan
• Inuktitut: ᐸᑭᔅᑕᓐ (pakistan)
• Irish: An Phacastáin f
• Italian: Pakistan (it) m
• Japanese: パキスタン (ja) (Pakisutan)
• Javanese: Pakistan
• Kabyle: Pakistan
• Kalenjin: Pakistani
• Kamba: Pakistani
• Kannada: ಪಾಕಿಸ್ತಾನ್ (kn) (pākistān)
• Kapampangan: Pakistan
• Kashmiri: پاکِستان‎ m (pākistān)
• Kashubian: Pakistan
• Kazakh: Пәкістан (Päkistan), Пәкстан (Päkstan)
• Khmer: ប៉ាគីស្ថាន (km) (paakiisthaan)
• Kikuyu: Pakistan
• Korean: 파키스탄 (Pakiseutan)
• Kurdish:

  Kurmanji: Pakistan (ku)

  Sorani: پاکستان‎ (ku) (pakistan)

• Kyrgyz: Пакистан (ky) (Pakistan)
• Lak: Пакисттан (Pakist̄an)

• Lao: ປາກິດສະຖານ (lo) (pā kit sa thān)
• Latvian: Pakistāna (lv) f
• Ligurian: Pakistan
• Lithuanian: Pakistanas (lt) m
• Lower Sorbian: Pakistan
• Luhya: Pakistan
• Luo: Pakistan
• Macedonian: Пакистан (mk) m (Pakistan)
• Malay: Pakistan
• Malayalam: പാക്കിസ്ഥാന് (pākkisthānŭ)
• Maltese: il-Pakistan
• Maori: Pakitāne
• Marathi: पाकिस्तान (pākistān)
• Meru: Pakistan
• Mongolian: Пакистан (mn) (Pakistan)
• Nauruan: Pakistan
• Navajo: Eʼeʼaahjí Naakaii Dootłʼizhí Bikéyah
• Norman: Pakistan m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Pakistan (no)

  Nynorsk: Pakistan (nn)

• Occitan: Paquistan (oc) m
• Oriya: ପାକିସ୍ତାନ (pakistanô)
• Papiamentu: Pakistan
• Pashto: پاکستان‎ (ps) m (рākestãn)
• Persian: پاکستان‎ (fa) (pâkestân)
• Polish: Pakistan (pl) m inan
• Portuguese: Paquistão (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਪਾਕਿਸਤਾਨ (pākistān)

  Shahmukhi: پاکستان‎ (pākistān)

• Romanian: Pakistan (ro) n

  Cyrillic: Пакистан (ro) n

• Russian: Пакиста́н (ru) m (Pakistán)
• Samogitian: Pakėstans m
• Santali: ᱯᱟᱠᱤᱥᱛᱟᱱ (pakistan)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Па̏киста̄н m

  Roman: Pȁkistān (sh) m

• Sicilian: Pakistan
• Silesian: Pakistan
• Sindhi: پاڪستان‎ (sd) (pākistān)
• Sinhalese: පාකිස්ථානය (pākisthānaya), පකිස්‍තානය (pakis‍tānaya)
• Slovak: Pakistan m
• Slovene: Pakistan (sl) m
• Spanish: Pakistán (es) m, Paquistán (es) m
• Sundanese: Pakistan
• Swahili: Pakistani (sw)
• Swedish: Pakistan (sv)
• Tagalog: Pakistan
• Tajik: Покистон (tg) (Pokiston)
• Tamil: பாகிஸ்தான் (pākistāṉ), பாக்கிஸ்தான் (pākkistāṉ), பாக்கித்தான் (pākkittāṉ), பாக்கிஸ்தான் (pākkistāṉ), பாகிஸ்தான் (pākistāṉ)
• Tatar: Пакистан (Paqistan)
• Telugu: పాకిస్తాన్ (te) (pākistān), పాకిస్తాన్ (te) (pākistān)
• Thai: ปากีสถาน (th) (bpaa-gii-sà-tǎan)
• Tibetan: པ་ཀི་སི་སྟན (pa ki si stan)
• Turkish: Pakistan (tr)
• Turkmen: Päkistan, Pakystan

  Cyrillic: Пәкистан, Пакыстан

• Ukrainian: Пакиста́н (uk) m (Pakystán)
• Upper Sorbian: Pakistan
• Urdu: پاکستان‎ (ur) m (pākistān)
• Uyghur: پاكىستان‎ (pakistan)
• Uzbek: Pokiston (uz)

  Cyrillic: Покистон

• Vietnamese: Pa-ki-xtan
• Volapük: Pakistän
• Walloon: Pakistan
• Waray-Waray: Pakistan
• West Frisian: Pakistan (fy)
• Yiddish: פּאַקיסטאַן‎ (pakistan)
• Yoruba: Pakistan
• Zhuang: Bahgihswhdanj

See also

• Countries of the world

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Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /pə.kisˈtan/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /pa.kisˈtan/

Proper noun

Pakistan m

1. Pakistan

Derived terms

• pakistanès

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Danish

Proper noun

Pakistan

1. Pakistan (country in south Asia)

Related terms

• pakistansk

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Faroese

Etymology

From Urdu and Persian پاکستان‎ (literally “Land of the Pure”), from پاک‎ (pak, “pure, holy, immaculate, chaste, undefiled”) and Persian ستان‎ (stān, “-stan”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpʰaʰkistan/

Proper noun

Pakistan n

1. Pakistan

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Finnish

Proper noun

Pakistan

1. Pakistan

Declension

Inflection of Pakistan (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative		Pakistan	—
genitive		Pakistanin	—
partitive		Pakistania	—
illative		Pakistaniin	—
		singular	plural
nominative		Pakistan	—
accusative	nom.	Pakistan	—
	gen.	Pakistanin
genitive		Pakistanin	—
partitive		Pakistania	—
inessive		Pakistanissa	—
elative		Pakistanista	—
illative		Pakistaniin	—
adessive		Pakistanilla	—
ablative		Pakistanilta	—
allative		Pakistanille	—
essive		Pakistanina	—
translative		Pakistaniksi	—
instructive		—	—
abessive		Pakistanitta	—
comitative		—	—

Derived terms

• pakistanilainen

Anagrams

• pakastin, pankista, pinkasta

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa.kis.tɑ̃/

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Proper noun

Pakistan m

1. Pakistan

Derived terms

• Pakistanais
• pakistanais

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German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpaːkɪstaːn/

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Proper noun

Pakistan n (genitive Pakistans, plural Pakistan)

1. Pakistan

Derived terms

• pakistanisch
• Pakistaner
• Ostpakistan
• Westpakistan

Related terms

• Pakistani

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Italian

Proper noun

Pakistan m

1. Pakistan

Derived terms

• pakistano

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Maltese

Proper noun

Pakistan m

1. Pakistan

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Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Pakistan

1. Pakistan

Related terms

• pakistaner
• pakistansk
• pakkis (offensive)

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Pakistan

1. Pakistan

Related terms

• pakistanar
• pakistansk

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paˈkʲi.stan/

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Proper noun

Pakistan m

1. Pakistan

Declension

declension of Pakistan

	singular
nominative	Pakistan
genitive	Pakistanu
dative	Pakistanowi
accusative	Pakistan
instrumental	Pakistanem
locative	Pakistanie
vocative	Pakistanie

Derived terms

• Pakistańczyk m, Pakistanka f
• adjective: pakistański

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Scots

Proper noun

Pakistan

1. Pakistan.

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pâkistaːn/
• Hyphenation: Pa‧ki‧stan

Proper noun

Pȁkistān m (Cyrillic spelling Па̏киста̄н)

1. Pakistan

Declension

Declension of Pakistan

	singular
nominative	Pakistan
genitive	Pakistana
dative	Pakistanu
accusative	Pakistan
vocative	Pakistane
locative	Pakistanu
instrumental	Pakistanom

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Swedish

Proper noun

Pakistan n (genitive Pakistans)

1. Pakistan

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Tagalog

Etymology

From Spanish Pakistán.

Proper noun

Pákistán

1. Pakistan

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Tatar

Proper noun

Pakistan

1. Pakistan

Declension

    declension of Pakistan

Nominative	Pakistan
Genitive	Pakistannıñ
Dative	Pakistanga
Accusative	Pakistannı
Locative	Pakistanda
Ablative	Pakistandan

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Turkish

Proper noun

Pakistan

1. Pakistan

Derived terms

• Pakistanlı