Pakistan

See also: Pakistán, Pákistán, and Päkistan

Flag of Pakistan

English

A map of Pakistan

Etymology

From Urdu پاکستان‎ (pākistān, “Land of the Holy”), from پاک‎ (pak, “pure, holy, immaculate, chaste, undefiled”) and Persian ـستان‎ (-stân, “-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 name to ease pronunciation.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌpɑːkɪˈstɑːn/, /ˌpækɪˈstɑːn/, /ˌpækɪˈstæn/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌpɑːkɪˈstɑːn/, /ˈpækɪˌstæn/, /ˌpækɪˈstæn/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• (Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈpækəˌstæn/

Proper noun

Pakistan

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

Derived terms

• East Pakistan
• Pakistani
• West Pakistan

Translations

country in South Asia

• Abkhaz: Пакистан (Pʼakʼistʼan)
• Acehnese: Pakistan
• Afrikaans: Pakistan
• Albanian: Pakistan m
• Amharic: ፓኪስታን (pakistan)
• Arabic: بَاكِسْتَان‎ (ar) f (bākistān), الْبَاكِسْتَان‎ (ar) f (al-bākistān)

  Hijazi Arabic: پاكستان‎ f (pākistān), باكستان‎ f (bākistan)

• Armenian: Պակիստան (Pakistan)
• Assamese: পাকিস্তান (pakistan)
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܦܵܟܸܣܛܵܢ‎ f (pakistan)
• Asturian: Paquistán (ast)
• Azerbaijani: Pakistan (az)

  Cyrillic: Пакистан

• Baluchi: پاکستان‎ (pākestān)
• Bashkir: Пакистан (Pakistan)
• Belarusian: Пакіста́н m (Pakistán)
• Bengali: পাকিস্তান (bn) (pakiśtan)
• Bikol Central: Pakistan
• Breton: Pakistan (br)
• 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) n
• Dhivehi: ޕާކިސްތާން‎ (pākistān̊)
• Dutch: Pakistan (nl) n
• 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), पाकिसतान (hi) m (pākistān), पाकिस्तन (hi) m (pākistan), पकिस्तान m (pakistān), (formal: इस्लामी गणराज्य पाकिस्तान m (islāmī gaṇrājya pākistān), इस्लामी गणतंत्र पाकिस्तान m (islāmī gaṇtantra pākistān), पाकिस्तान इस्लामी गणराज्य m (pākistān islāmī gaṇrājya), पाकिस्तान इस्लामी गणतंत्र m (pākistān islāmī gaṇtantra), इस्लामी जम्हूरिया पाकिस्तान m (islāmī jamhūriyā pākistān), इस्लामी जम्हूरिया ए पाकिस्तान m (islāmī jamhūriyā e pākistān)), पश्चिमी पाकिस्तान m (paścimī pākistān) (historical)
• Hungarian: Pakisztán (hu)
• Icelandic: Pakistan (is)
• Ido: Pakistan (io)
• Ilocano: Pakistan
• Indonesian: Pakistan (id)
• Interlingua: 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 (Päkıstan), Пәкстан (Päkstan)

  Arabic: پاكىستان‎

• Khmer: ប៉ាគីស្ថាន (km) (paakiisthaan)
• Kikuyu: Pakistan
• Korean: 파키스탄 (ko) (Pakiseutan), 빠끼스딴 (Ppakkiseuttan) (North Korea)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: پاکستان‎ (ku) (pakistan)

  Northern Kurdish: Pakistan (ku)

• Kyrgyz: Пакистан (ky) (Pakistan)
• Lak: Пакисттан (Pakist:an)
• 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: Пакиста́н (mk) m (Pakistán)
• Malay: Pakistan (ms)
• Malayalam: പാക്കിസ്ഥാന് (pākkisthānŭ)
• Maltese: il-Pakistan
• Maori: Pakitāne
• Marathi: पाकिस्तान (pākistān)
• Meru: Pakistan
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Пакистан (mn) (Pakistan)

  Mongolian: ᠫᠠᠺᠢᠰᠲ᠋ᠠᠨ (pagistan)

• 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:

  Gurmukhi: ਪਾਕਿਸਤਾਨ m (pākistān), ਪਾਕਸਤਾਨ (pāksatān)

  Shahmukhi: پاکِسْتان‎ m (pākistān), پاکَسْتان‎ (pākastān)

• Rohingya: Pakistán
• 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 (sk) m
• Slovene: Pakistan (sl) m
• Spanish: Pakistán (es) m, Paquistán (es) m
• Sundanese: Pakistan
• Swahili: Pakistani (sw)
• Swedish: Pakistan (sv) n
• 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་ཐན (pa ki si than)
• Turkish: Pakistan (tr)
• Turkmen: Päkistan, Pakystan

  Cyrillic: Пәкистан, Пакыстан

• Ukrainian: Пакиста́н (uk) m (Pakystán)
• Upper Sorbian: Pakistan
• Urdu: پاکِسْتان‎ (ur) m (pākistān), اسلای جمہوریہ پاکستان‎ m (islāmī jamhūriyah-e pākistān)
• Uyghur: پاكىستان‎ (pakistan), پاكستان‎ (pakstan)

  Cyrillic: Пакстан (Pakstan)

• Uzbek: Pokiston (uz)

  Cyrillic: Покистон (Pokiston)

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

See also

• Countries of the world
• (countries of Asia) country of Asia; Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, China, Cyprus, Georgia, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Malaysia, Maldives, Mongolia, Nepal, North Korea, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Philippines, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Syria, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Turkey, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Yemen
• East Pakistan, West Pakistan

Further reading

• Pakistan on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Pakistan on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

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Azerbaijani

Proper noun

Pakistan

1. Pakistan

Declension

Declension of Pakistan
	singular	plural
nominative	Pakistan	Pakistanlar
definite accusative	Pakistanı	Pakistanları
dative	Pakistana	Pakistanlara
locative	Pakistanda	Pakistanlarda
ablative	Pakistandan	Pakistanlardan
definite genitive	Pakistanın	Pakistanların

Possessive forms of Pakistan
	nominative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	Pakistanım	Pakistanlarım
sənin (“your”)	Pakistanın	Pakistanların
onun (“his/her/its”)	Pakistanı	Pakistanları
bizim (“our”)	Pakistanımız	Pakistanlarımız
sizin (“your”)	Pakistanınız	Pakistanlarınız
onların (“their”)	Pakistanı or Pakistanları	Pakistanları
	accusative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	Pakistanımı	Pakistanlarımı
sənin (“your”)	Pakistanını	Pakistanlarını
onun (“his/her/its”)	Pakistanını	Pakistanlarını
bizim (“our”)	Pakistanımızı	Pakistanlarımızı
sizin (“your”)	Pakistanınızı	Pakistanlarınızı
onların (“their”)	Pakistanını or Pakistanlarını	Pakistanlarını
	dative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	Pakistanıma	Pakistanlarıma
sənin (“your”)	Pakistanına	Pakistanlarına
onun (“his/her/its”)	Pakistanına	Pakistanlarına
bizim (“our”)	Pakistanımıza	Pakistanlarımıza
sizin (“your”)	Pakistanınıza	Pakistanlarınıza
onların (“their”)	Pakistanına or Pakistanlarına	Pakistanlarına
	locative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	Pakistanımda	Pakistanlarımda
sənin (“your”)	Pakistanında	Pakistanlarında
onun (“his/her/its”)	Pakistanında	Pakistanlarında
bizim (“our”)	Pakistanımızda	Pakistanlarımızda
sizin (“your”)	Pakistanınızda	Pakistanlarınızda
onların (“their”)	Pakistanında or Pakistanlarında	Pakistanlarında
	ablative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	Pakistanımdan	Pakistanlarımdan
sənin (“your”)	Pakistanından	Pakistanlarından
onun (“his/her/its”)	Pakistanından	Pakistanlarından
bizim (“our”)	Pakistanımızdan	Pakistanlarımızdan
sizin (“your”)	Pakistanınızdan	Pakistanlarınızdan
onların (“their”)	Pakistanından or Pakistanlarından	Pakistanlarından
	genitive
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	Pakistanımın	Pakistanlarımın
sənin (“your”)	Pakistanının	Pakistanlarının
onun (“his/her/its”)	Pakistanının	Pakistanlarının
bizim (“our”)	Pakistanımızın	Pakistanlarımızın
sizin (“your”)	Pakistanınızın	Pakistanlarınızın
onların (“their”)	Pakistanının or Pakistanlarının	Pakistanlarının

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Catalan

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (Valencian)

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Proper noun

Pakistan m

1. Pakistan (a country in southern Asia)

Derived terms

• pakistanès

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Danish

Proper noun

Pakistan

1. Pakistan (a country in southern 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		—	—

Possessive forms of Pakistan (type risti)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	Pakistanini	Pakistanimme
2nd person	Pakistanisi	Pakistaninne
3rd person	Pakistaninsa

Derived terms

• pakistanilainen

Anagrams

• pakastin, pankista, pinkasta

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa.kis.tɑ̃/

• Audio

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Proper noun

Pakistan m

1. Pakistan (a country in South Asia)

Derived terms

• Pakistanais
• pakistanais

See also

• (countries of Asia) pays d'Asie; Afghanistan, Arabie saoudite, Arménie, Azerbaïdjan, Bahreïn, Bangladesh, Bhoutan, Birmanie, Brunei, Cambodge, Chine, Chypre, Corée du Nord, Corée du Sud, Émirats arabes unis, Géorgie, Inde, Indonésie, Iran, Irak, Israël, Japon, Jordanie, Kazakhstan, Kirghizistan, Koweït, Laos, Liban, Malaisie, Maldives, Mongolie, Népal, Oman, Ouzbékistan, Pakistan, Philippines, Qatar, Russie, Singapour, Sri Lanka, Syrie, Tadjikistan, Thaïlande, Timor oriental, Turquie, Turkménistan, Vietnam, Yémen ^{(Category: fr:Countries in Asia)}

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Gagauz

Proper noun

Pakistan

1. Pakistan (a country in Asia)

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German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpaːkɪstaːn/

• Audio

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Proper noun

Pakistan n (proper noun, genitive Pakistans or (optionally with an article) Pakistan, plural (rare) Pakistan)

1. Pakistan (a country in South Asia)

Derived terms

• pakistanisch
• Pakistaner
• Ostpakistan
• Westpakistan

Related terms

• Pakistani

Further reading

• “Pakistan” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

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Hausa

Etymology

From English Pakistan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /páː.kís.tàn/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [páː.cɪ́s.tàŋ]

Proper noun

Pākistàn f

1. Pakistan (a country in Asia)

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpa.ki.stan/, /pa.kiˈstan/
• Rhymes: -akistan, -an
• Hyphenation: Pà‧ki‧stan, Pa‧ki‧stàn

Proper noun

Pakistan m

1. Pakistan

Derived terms

• pakistano

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Maltese

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Proper noun

Pakistan m

1. Pakistan (a country in Asia)

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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): /paˈkis.tan/

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -istan
• Syllabification: Pa‧kis‧tan

Proper noun

Pakistan m

1. Pakistan (a country in South Asia)

Declension

Declension of Pakistan

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

Derived terms

adjective

• pakistański

 

nouns

• Pakistanka
• Pakistańczyk

 

Further reading

• Pakistan in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• Pakistan in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Scots

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

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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Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpakistan]

Proper noun

Pakistan m (genitive singular Pakistanu, declension pattern of dub)

1. Pakistan (a country in Asia)

References

• Pakistan in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

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Swahili

Proper noun

Pakistan

1. Pakistan (a country in South Asia)

   Synonym: Pakistani

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Swedish

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɑːn

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