Significado (Inglés)

A country in South Asia. Official name: Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Capital: Islamabad.

Conceptos

República Islámica de Pakistán

la República Islámica del Pakistán

República Islámica del Pakistán

el Pakistán

Sinónimos

the Islamic Republic of Pakistan

𐐑𐐰𐐿𐐲𐑅𐐻𐐰𐑌

Frecuencia

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Pronunciado como (IPA)
/ˌpɑːkɪˈstɑːn/
Etimología (Inglés)

Borrowed from Urdu پاکستان (pākistān, “Land of the Holy”), from پاک (pāk, “pure, holy, immaculate, chaste, undefiled”) and Classical Persian ـستان (-stān,-istān, “-stan”). The word was coined by Pakistani politician Chuhdary Rahmat Ali in 1933, who published it in the pamphlet Now or Never as an acronym of the names of the "Muslim homelands" of western India—Punjab, Afghania, Kashmir, Sindh, and Balochistan. Absent from said acronym (which may possibly a backronym) is the letter ⟨i⟩, which is sometimes erroneously said to stand for the Indus, but it is in fact epenthetic.

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