Pakistan
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English
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Un-pakistan.png/220px-Un-pakistan.png)
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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Proper noun
Pakistan
- Country in South Asia. Official name: Islamic Republic of Pakistan.
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Translations
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See also
Catalan
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Pakistan m
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Danish
Proper noun
Pakistan
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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
Proper noun
Pakistan n
Finnish
Proper noun
Pakistan
Declension
Inflection of Pakistan (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
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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 | — | |
abessive | Pakistanitta | — | |
instructive | — | — | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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Anagrams
French
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Pakistan m
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German
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Pakistan n (genitive Pakistans, plural Pakistan)
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Italian
Proper noun
Pakistan m
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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
Norwegian Bokmål
Proper noun
Pakistan
Related terms
- pakistaner
- pakistansk
- pakkis (offensive)
Norwegian Nynorsk
Proper noun
Pakistan
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Polish
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Pakistan m
Declension
singular | |
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nominative | Pakistan |
genitive | Pakistanu |
dative | Pakistanowi |
accusative | Pakistan |
instrumental | Pakistanem |
locative | Pakistanie |
vocative | Pakistanie |
Derived terms
- Pakistańczyk m, Pakistanka f
- adjective: pakistański
Scots
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Proper noun
Pakistan
Serbo-Croatian
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Pȁkistān m (Cyrillic spelling Па̏киста̄н)
Declension
singular | |
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nominative | Pakistan |
genitive | Pakistana |
dative | Pakistanu |
accusative | Pakistan |
vocative | Pakistane |
locative | Pakistanu |
instrumental | Pakistanom |
Swedish
Proper noun
Pakistan n (genitive Pakistans)
Tagalog
Etymology
Proper noun
Pákistán
Tatar
Proper noun
Pakistan
Declension
Nominative | Pakistan |
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Genitive | Pakistannıñ |
Dative | Pakistanga |
Accusative | Pakistannı |
Locative | Pakistanda |
Ablative | Pakistandan |
Turkish
Proper noun
Pakistan
Derived terms
- English terms borrowed from Urdu
- English terms derived from Urdu
- English terms derived from Persian
- English terms with audio links
- English 3-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English words suffixed with -stan
- en:Countries in Asia
- en:Pakistan
- Catalan terms with IPA pronunciation
- Catalan lemmas
- Catalan proper nouns
- Catalan terms spelled with K
- Catalan masculine nouns
- ca:Countries
- Danish lemmas
- Danish proper nouns
- da:Pakistan
- da:Countries in Asia
- da:Countries
- Faroese terms derived from Urdu
- Faroese terms derived from Persian
- Faroese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Faroese lemmas
- Faroese proper nouns
- Faroese neuter nouns
- fo:Countries
- fo:Pakistan
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish proper nouns
- Finnish risti-type nominals
- Finnish uncountable nouns
- fi:Countries
- French 3-syllable words
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
- French terms with audio links
- French lemmas
- French proper nouns
- French terms spelled with K
- French masculine nouns
- fr:Countries in Asia
- German 3-syllable words
- German terms with IPA pronunciation
- German terms with audio links
- German lemmas
- German proper nouns
- German neuter nouns
- de:Countries in Asia
- Italian lemmas
- Italian proper nouns
- Italian terms spelled with K
- Italian masculine nouns
- it:Countries in Asia
- Maltese lemmas
- Maltese proper nouns
- Maltese masculine nouns
- mt:Countries
- mt:Countries in Asia
- Norwegian Bokmål lemmas
- Norwegian Bokmål proper nouns
- nb:Countries
- Norwegian Nynorsk lemmas
- Norwegian Nynorsk proper nouns
- nn:Countries
- Polish 3-syllable words
- Polish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Polish terms with audio links
- Polish lemmas
- Polish proper nouns
- Polish masculine nouns
- pl:Countries in Asia
- Scots lemmas
- Scots proper nouns
- Serbo-Croatian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Serbo-Croatian lemmas
- Serbo-Croatian proper nouns
- Serbo-Croatian masculine nouns
- sh:Countries in Asia
- Swedish lemmas
- Swedish proper nouns
- Swedish neuter nouns
- sv:Countries
- Tagalog terms borrowed from Spanish
- Tagalog terms derived from Spanish
- Tagalog lemmas
- Tagalog proper nouns
- tl:Countries
- Tatar lemmas
- Tatar proper nouns
- tt:Countries
- Turkish lemmas
- Turkish proper nouns
- tr:Countries in Asia