pashto
/puhsh-toh/US // ˈpʌʃ toʊ //UK // (ˈpʌʃtəʊ) //
普什图语,普赫图语,普什图族,普尔图语
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : an Indo-European, Iranian language that is the official language of Afghanistan and the chief vernacular of the eastern part of the nation.
Examples
A former interpreter, Lughmani called up a guard he knew was working at the gates and asked in Pashto what was really going on.
Our Pashto interpreter explained how he had pretended to be a Pakistani policeman when interested crowds approached the compound.
Over the course of these meetings, Zalwar Khan, whose name in Pashto means brave leader, becomes more relaxed.
He is an articulate, gifted speaker in his native Pashto, and is fluent in Persian and Arabic.
I remember speaking with Taliban mullahs: black beards, white turbans, Arabic inflection to their Pashto.
On Thursday the Taliban website Al Emara posted a Pashto-language editorial headlined “Libertine Friend.”
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