Pashtun

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1. Of or relating to the Pashtuns (a segmentary-lineage ethnic group currently numbering some 50 million people, which is the largest ethnic group in Afghanistan and the second largest in Pakistan), or to their culture.

   “What about Zalmai?” he said. “It’s a good Pashtun name.”

   2007, Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns, BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING (2018), page 85

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1. A member of an Eastern Iranian ethnic group native to southeastern Afghanistan and northwestern Pakistan (a region known as Pashtunistan).

   “They bring shame on me as a Pashtun. They’ve disgraced the name of my people.”

   2007, Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns, BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING (2018), pages 310–311

2. informalA Pashto-speaking person.

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1. Pashto: the language of the Pashtun ethnic group.