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Pashtun Common

Pashtun has 5 different meanings across 2 categories:

Noun · Proper Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

a member of the mountain people living in the eastern regions of Afghanistan

"Pathans are the predominant ethnic group in Afghanistan"

2

an ethnic minority speaking Pashto and living in northwestern Pakistan and southeastern Afghanistan

3

A member of the Pashtun ethnic group, or of a Pashtun tribe.

Adjective
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.