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Pakistan

Pakistan

See also: Pakistán, Pákistán, and Päkistan
State emblem of Pakistan

English

A map of Pakistan

Proper noun

Pakistan

  1. Country in South Asia. Official name: Islamic Republic of Pakistan.

Translations

See also

  • Countries of the world

Catalan

Proper noun

Pakistan m

  1. Pakistan

Derived terms

Danish

Proper noun

Pakistan

  1. Pakistan (country in south Asia)

Related terms

Faroese

Etymology

From Urdu and Persian پاکستان "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

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 — —

Derived terms

Anagrams

French

Proper noun

Pakistan m

  1. Pakistan

Derived terms

German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpaːkɪstaːn/

Proper noun

Pakistan n ‎(genitive Pakistans)

  1. Pakistan

Derived terms

Italian

Proper noun

Pakistan m

  1. Pakistan

Derived terms

Maltese

Proper noun

Pakistan m

  1. Pakistan

Norwegian Bokmål

Proper noun

Pakistan

  1. Pakistan

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Proper noun

Pakistan

  1. Pakistan

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Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /paˈkʲistan/

Proper noun

Pakistan m

  1. Pakistan

Declension

Derived terms

Scots

Proper noun

Pakistan

  1. Pakistan.

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pâkistaːn/
  • Hyphenation: Pa‧ki‧stan

Proper noun

Pȁkistān m ‎(Cyrillic spelling Па̏киста̄н)

  1. Pakistan

Declension

Swedish

Proper noun

Pakistan

  1. Pakistan

Tagalog

Etymology

From Spanish Pakistán ‎(“Pakistan”).

Proper noun

Pákistán

  1. Pakistan

Tatar

Proper noun

Pakistan

  1. Pakistan

Declension

Turkish

Proper noun

Pakistan

  1. Pakistan

Derived terms

Etymology

From Urdu and Persian پاکستان ‎(pākistān, “Land of the Pure”), from پاک ‎(pak, “pure, holy, immaculate, chaste, undefiled”) and Persian ستان (stān, "-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 English rendition of the name to ease pronunciation.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˌpɑːkɪˈstɑːn/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈpækɪsˌtæn/

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