Word Origin Summary

افغان is attested in FAS. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Ancestry Chain

1. αβαγανοBactrianderived from

Descendants and Related Terms

• Afganistan

  Indonesian · derived from

• افغان

  Pashto · borrowed from

• افغان

  Urdu · derived from

• أفغان

  Arabic · borrowed from

• afgānis

  Latvian · borrowed from

• Afganistan

  Faroese · derived from

• афган

  Kyrgyz · borrowed from

• afgan

  Romanian · borrowed from

What You Can Explore

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• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root