Afeganistão

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Bandeira do Afeganistão.

Alternative forms

• Afganistão (obsolete)
• Afghanistão (obsolete)

Etymology

Ultimately from Classical Persian افغانستان (afġānistān), apparently through English Afghanistan,^[1] though exact derivation is unclear.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.fe.ɡa.nisˈtɐ̃w̃/ [a.fe.ɡa.nisˈtɐ̃ʊ̯̃]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.fe.ɡa.nisˈtɐ̃w̃/ [a.fe.ɡa.nisˈtɐ̃ʊ̯̃]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /a.fe.ɡa.niʃˈtɐ̃w̃/ [a.fe.ɡa.niʃˈtɐ̃ʊ̯̃]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐ.fɨ.ɡɐ.niʃˈtɐ̃w̃/ [ɐ.fɨ.ɣɐ.niʃˈtɐ̃w̃]

• Hyphenation: A‧fe‧ga‧nis‧tão

Proper noun

o Afeganistão m

1. Afghanistan (a landlocked country between Central Asia and South Asia; official name: República Islâmica do Afeganistão; capital and largest city: Cabul)

Related terms

• afegão (“Afghan”)
• afegâni

References

1. ^ “Afghanistanism, n., Etymology”, in OED Online  ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, July 2023.