afghanistan

English - Turkish

Definition of afghanistan in English Turkish dictionary

Afganistan'ın başkenti Kabil'dir. - Kabul is the capital of Afghanistan.

Yanlış yapmak yok: Biz birliklerimizi Afganistan'da tutmak istemiyoruz. Biz orada askeri üs aramıyoruz. - Make no mistake: we do not want to keep our troops in Afghanistan. We seek no military bases there.

(isim) Afganistan

English - English

Definition of afghanistan in English English dictionary: A landlocked country in Central Asia. Official name: Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. Capital: Kabul. Official languages: Persian (Dari), Pashto; {i} Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, country in southwestern Asia; A landlocked country in Central Asia. Official name: Afghanistan. Capital: Kabul. Official languages: Persian (Dari), Pashto; a country in Asia that is west of Pakistan and east of Iran. Population: 26,800,000 (2001). Capital: Kabul. officially Islamic State of Afghanistan Country, south-central Asia; a mountainous landlocked country in central Asia; bordered by Iran to the west and Russia to the north and Pakistan to the east and south; "Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan in 1979; Afg

afghanistan

Hyphenation

Af·gha·ni·stan

Turkish pronunciation

äfgänıstän

Pronunciation

/afˈganəˌstan/ /æfˈɡænəˌstæn/

Etymology

() Afghan is believed by many modern Indic scholars to have been derived from a Sanskrit term Ashvakan though, some people claim its origin from the Turkic word Avagan (“Original”) or else from the Latin word Alban (“mountaineers”); + Persian suffix -stan. Compare Persian افغانستان (Afghanistan, “land of Afghans”) See: Wikipedia article on Etymology of Afghanistan. Also see: