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nuristani

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.43 in modern English

Syllables
nuris-tani
IPA
9
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any member of an ethnic group found mostly in the Nuristan, Laghman and Kunar provinces of Afghanistan, now generally Muslim but having once had an Indo-Iranian polytheistic religion.

name

One of the three groups within the Indo-Iranian language family, the other two being Indo-Aryan and Iranian groups.

Etymology

From Persian نورستانی (nurestâni), from نورستان (nurestân) + ـی (-i, “of or pertaining to”), from نور (nur, “light”) + ـستان (-estân, “land of”).

Inflected Forms

Nuristanis (plural)

Phrases

Proto-Nuristani

Questions

What does nuristani mean?
Any member of an ethnic group found mostly in the Nuristan, Laghman and Kunar provinces of Afghanistan, now generally Muslim but having once had an Indo-Iranian polytheistic religion.
Where does nuristani come from?
From Persian نورستانی (nurestâni), from نورستان (nurestân) + ـی (-i, “of or pertaining to”), from نور (nur, “light”) + ـستان (-estân, “land of”).

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