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Nuristani

Today it means: Any member of an ethnic group found mostly in the Nuristan, Laghman and Kunar provinces of Afghanistan, now generally Muslim but having once had an Indo-Iranian polytheistic religion. Full definition →

Persian نورستانی

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Persian · derived fromنورستانی
English todayNuristani

From Persian نورستانی (nurestâni), from نورستان (nurestân) + ـی (-i, “of or pertaining to”), from نور (nur, “light”) + ـستان (-estân, “land of”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.