Pakistan

English

Wikipedia

A map of Pakistan

Etymology

From Urdu and Persian پاکستان (“Land of the Pure”), from پاک (pak, “pure, holy, immaculate, chaste, undefiled”) and Persian ستان (stān, "-stan"). 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 English rendition of the name to ease pronunciation.

Pronunciation

• Audio (US)

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• IPA^(key): /ˈpækɪsˌtæn/

Proper noun

Pakistan

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

Translations

country in South Asia

• Abkhaz: Пакистан (Ṗāḳisṭān)
• Acehnese: Pakistan
• Afrikaans: Pakistan
• Albanian: Pakistani
• Amharic: ፓኪስታን (pakistan)
• Arabic: باكستان m (bakistaan)
• Aramaic: ܦܐܩܣܛܐܢ
• Armenian: Պակիստան (Pakistan)
• Assamese: পাকিস্তান (pakistan)
• Asturian: Paquistán (ast)
• Azeri: Pakistan (az)

  Cyrillic: Пакистан

• Baluchi: پاکستان (pākestān)
• Bashkir: Пакистан (Pakistan)
• Belarusian: Пакістан m (Pakistán)
• Bengali: পাকিস্তান (pakistan)
• Bikol Central: Pakistan
• Breton: Pakistan
• Bulgarian: Пакистан (bg) m (Pakistán)
• Burmese: ပာကစ္စတန္ (pakiʿstã)
• Catalan: Pakistan (ca)
• Cebuano: Pakistan
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 巴基斯坦 (zh) (Bājīsītǎn)

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

  Kurmanji: Pakistan (ku)

  Sorani: پاکستان (ku)

• Kyrgyz: Пакистан (Pakistan)

• Lak: Пакисттан (Pakisttan)
• Lao: ປາກິດສະຖານ (lo) (pākitsatʰān)
• Latvian: Pakistāna (lv)
• Ligurian: Pakistan
• Lithuanian: Pakistanas (lt) m
• Lower Sorbian: Pakistan
• Luhya: Pakistan
• Luo: Pakistan
• Macedonian: Пакистан (mk) m (Pákistan)
• Malayalam: പാക്കിസ്ഥാന് (pākkisthān)
• Maltese: il-Pakistan
• Marathi: पाकिस्तान (pākistān)
• Meru: Pakistan
• Mongolian: Пакистан (mn) (Pakistan)
• Nauruan: Pakistan
• Navajo: Eʼeʼaahjí Naakaii Dootłʼizhí Bikéyah
• Norwegian: Pakistan (no)
• Oriya: ପାକିସ୍ତାନ (pākistān)
• Papiamentu: Pakistan
• Pashto: پاکستان (ps) (Pakestân)
• Persian: پاکستان (fa) (Pâkestân)
• Polish: Pakistan (pl) m
• Portuguese: Paquistão (pt) m
• Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi: ਪਾਕਿਸਤਾਨ (pākistān)

  Shahmukhi: پاکستان (pākistān)

• Romanian: Pakistan n

  Cyrillic: Пакистан n

• Russian: Пакистан (ru) m (Pakistán)
• Samogitian: Pakėstans m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Па̏киста̄н m

  Roman: Pȁkistān 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)
• Tajik: Покистон (Pokiston)
• Tamil: பாகிஸ்தான் (Pākistān), பாக்கிஸ்தான் (Pākkistān), பாக்கித்தான் (pākkittāṉ), பாக்கிஸ்தான் (pākkistāṉ), பாகிஸ்தான் (pākistāṉ)
• Tatar: Пакистан (Pakistan)
• Telugu: పాకిస్తాన్ (te) (pAkistAn), పాకిస్తాన్ (te) (pākistān)
• Thai: ปากีสถาน (th) (bpaageesàtăan)
• Tibetan: པ་ཀི་སི་སྟན། (pa.ki.si.stan)
• Turkish: Pakistan (tr)
• Turkmen: Päkistan, Pakystan

  Cyrillic: Пәкистан, Пакыстан

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

  Cyrillic: Покистон

• Vietnamese: Pakistan, Pa-ki-xtan
• Volapük: Pakistän
• Walloon: Pakistan
• Waray-Waray: Pakistan
• West Frisian: Pakistan (fy)
• Yiddish: פאַקיסטאַן (Pakistán)
• Yoruba: Pakistan
• Zamboanga Chavacano: Pakistan

See also

• Countries of the world

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Catalan

Wikipedia ^ca

Proper noun

Pakistan m

1. Pakistan

Derived terms

• pakistanès

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Danish

Wikipedia ^da

Proper noun

Pakistan

1. Pakistan (country in south Asia)

Related terms

• pakistansk

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Faroese

Etymology

From Urdu and Persian پاکستان "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

Wikipedia ^fi

Proper noun

Pakistan

1. Pakistan

Declension

Declension of Pakistan (Kotus type 5/risti)

		singular	plural
nominative		Pakistan	—
accusative	zero?	Pakistan	—
	normal	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

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French

Proper noun

Pakistan m

1. Pakistan

Derived terms

• Pakistanais
• pakistanais

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German

Wikipedia ^de

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpaːkɪstaːn/

Proper noun

Pakistan n (genitive Pakistans)

1. Pakistan

Derived terms

• pakistanisch
• Pakistaner
• Pakistanerin
• Pakistani

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Italian

Wikipedia ^it

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

Proper noun

Pakistan

1. Pakistan

Related terms

• pakistaner, pakkis (offensive)
• pakistansk

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paˈkʲistan/

• Audio

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Proper noun

Pakistan m

1. Pakistan

Declension

    declension of Pakistan

	singular only
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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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

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