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Many place-name adjectives and many demonyms are also used for various other things, sometimes with and sometimes without one or more additional words. (Sometimes, the use of one or more additional words is optional.) Notable examples are cuisines, cheeses, cat breeds, dog breeds, and horse breeds. (See List of words derived from toponyms.)
An Afghan personal name consists of a given name (Dari: نام, Pashto: نوم) and sometimes a surname at the end. Personal names are generally not divided into first and family names; a single name is recognized as a full personal name, and the addition of further components – such as additional given names, regional, or ethnic family/clan names or patronymics – is often a matter of ...
H. W. Bellew, in his 1891 An Inquiry into the Ethnography of Afghanistan, believes that the name Afghan comes from Alban which derives from the Latin term albus, meaning "white", or "mountain", as mountains are often white-capped with snow (cf. Alps); used by Armenians as Alvan or Alwan, which refers to mountaineers, and in the case of ...
The term Afghani refers to the unit of Afghan currency. The term is also often used in the English language (and appears in some dictionaries) for a person or thing related to Afghanistan, although some have expressed the opinion that this usage is incorrect. [80]
Afghan (ethnonym), the historic term applied strictly to people of the Pashtun ethnicity; Ethnic groups in Afghanistan, people of various ethnicities that are nationally Afghan; Afghan (biscuit) Afghan (blanket) Afghan coat; Afghan cuisine; Afghan Hound, a dog breed originating in parts of Afghanistan and the surrounding regions; Afghan rug
al-Afghani (Arabic: الأفغاني) is a nisba meaning "Afghan" or from Afghanistan. It may refer to: Jamal al-Din al-Afghani, 19th-century political activist; Abul Wafa Al-Afghani, Islamic scholar; Sa'id al-Afghani, 20th-century scholar; Dr. Muhammad Muhsin Khan Al-Afghani, Medical doctor, author, translator, and Islamic scholar
Genealogy and family tree of Malak Afghana, grandson of King Saul. According to the Tanakh, King Saul was the son of Kish, a member of the tribe of Benjamin, one of the twelve Tribes of Israel (1 Samuel 9:1–2). Saul married Ahinoam, daughter of Ahimaaz and had four sons and two daughters.
The local name for the Persian variety spoken in Afghanistan was officially changed from Farsi to Dari, meaning "court language", in 1964. [78] [79] [80] Zaher said there would be, as there are now, two official languages, Pashto and Farsi, though the latter would henceforth be named Dari. Within their respective linguistic boundaries, Dari ...