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单词 Pashto
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Definition of Pashto in English:

Pashto

(also Pushtu)
noun ˈpʌʃtəʊˈpæʃˌtoʊ
mass noun
  • The language of the Pashtuns, which belongs to the Iranian group. It is the official language of Afghanistan and is also spoken in northern areas of Pakistan.

    普什图语(帕坦人的语言,属伊朗语族;阿富汗的官方语言以及巴基斯坦北部一些地区的语言)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • I don't even think there's a word in Urdu or Pushtu for ‘immediately.’
    • The BBC pours forth its worldview not just in English, but in almost every language of the Middle East: Pashto, Persian, Arabic, Turkish.
    • They don't speak Pashto and don't know anything about the complex Pashtun tribal code.
    • It was not broadcast in Britain but was listened to avidly throughout Afghanistan, where it was translated into Pashto.
    • ‘I like Pashto, maths and Islamic studies,’ she said brightly.
    • According to this article, the government is in need of a few translators of Arabic, Farsi, and Pashto.
    • We all recall the tickers rolling across the bottom of our television screens asking speakers of Arabic, Farsi, and Pashto to come forward.
    • The BBC has broadcast news to Afghanistan for 60 years in Persian and for 20 years in Pashto, the country's two main languages.
    • The service targets listeners in Afghanistan and Pakistan, where Pashto is widely spoken.
    • ‘It's very difficult for a mother to explain what it's like when her sick son leaves her,’ she said in her native Pashto.
    • Dari and Pashto - the two principal languages spoken in Afghanistan - are now on the air two hours and 15 minutes a day and will soon be expanded to three hours each, according to VOA.
    • New Home, New Life is a radio soap opera produced and recorded by the BBC's Afghan Service in Peshawar, Pakistan, and broadcast in two languages - Dari and Pashto - three times a week.
    • Few of the new subjects spoke Pashto - the Pashtun language - preferring Dari, a version of Persian, or Turkic dialects instead.
    • The books are available in both of Afghanistan's major languages, Dari and Pashto.
    • Three old men were listening intently to the BBC World Service news in Pashto.
    • The new dedicated schedule features three hour blocks of new programming in the key languages of Afghanistan (Persian and Pashto; plus some English and Uzbek) at breakfast, lunchtime and evening every day.
    • This elegant and thought-provoking enterprise brings together an assortment of works in English as well as in the Pakistani languages, including not only Urdu, but also Punjabi, Siraiki, Sindhi and Pashto.
    • Suddenly men came rushing in, screaming in Pushtu.
    • The BBC World Service expects to have attracted significant new audiences and high listenership in Afghanistan, Iraq and Somalia following expanded coverage in Pashto, Persian, Arabic, Urdu and Somali.
    • Not only Urdu but all the other languages of the largely Muslim peoples of the subcontinent of which I have knowledge - Pushtu, Punjabi, and Sindhi - carry the same message.

Origin

The name in Pashto.

Definition of Pashto in US English:

Pashto

nounˈpaSHˌtōˈpæʃˌtoʊ
  • The Iranian language of the Pashtuns, also spoken in northern areas of Pakistan, that is an official language of Afghanistan.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Dari and Pashto - the two principal languages spoken in Afghanistan - are now on the air two hours and 15 minutes a day and will soon be expanded to three hours each, according to VOA.
    • I don't even think there's a word in Urdu or Pushtu for ‘immediately.’
    • Suddenly men came rushing in, screaming in Pushtu.
    • The BBC pours forth its worldview not just in English, but in almost every language of the Middle East: Pashto, Persian, Arabic, Turkish.
    • The books are available in both of Afghanistan's major languages, Dari and Pashto.
    • The BBC has broadcast news to Afghanistan for 60 years in Persian and for 20 years in Pashto, the country's two main languages.
    • Not only Urdu but all the other languages of the largely Muslim peoples of the subcontinent of which I have knowledge - Pushtu, Punjabi, and Sindhi - carry the same message.
    • The service targets listeners in Afghanistan and Pakistan, where Pashto is widely spoken.
    • We all recall the tickers rolling across the bottom of our television screens asking speakers of Arabic, Farsi, and Pashto to come forward.
    • Few of the new subjects spoke Pashto - the Pashtun language - preferring Dari, a version of Persian, or Turkic dialects instead.
    • This elegant and thought-provoking enterprise brings together an assortment of works in English as well as in the Pakistani languages, including not only Urdu, but also Punjabi, Siraiki, Sindhi and Pashto.
    • ‘I like Pashto, maths and Islamic studies,’ she said brightly.
    • New Home, New Life is a radio soap opera produced and recorded by the BBC's Afghan Service in Peshawar, Pakistan, and broadcast in two languages - Dari and Pashto - three times a week.
    • Three old men were listening intently to the BBC World Service news in Pashto.
    • The new dedicated schedule features three hour blocks of new programming in the key languages of Afghanistan (Persian and Pashto; plus some English and Uzbek) at breakfast, lunchtime and evening every day.
    • ‘It's very difficult for a mother to explain what it's like when her sick son leaves her,’ she said in her native Pashto.
    • They don't speak Pashto and don't know anything about the complex Pashtun tribal code.
    • According to this article, the government is in need of a few translators of Arabic, Farsi, and Pashto.
    • The BBC World Service expects to have attracted significant new audiences and high listenership in Afghanistan, Iraq and Somalia following expanded coverage in Pashto, Persian, Arabic, Urdu and Somali.
    • It was not broadcast in Britain but was listened to avidly throughout Afghanistan, where it was translated into Pashto.

Origin

The name in Pashto.

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