Word Origin Summary

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

Descendants and Related Terms

• ပါကစ္စတန်

  Burmese · borrowed from

• -istão

  Portuguese · borrowed from

• Pakisitani

  Yoruba · borrowed from

• Pakistan

  Hausa · borrowed from

• 斯坦

  Mandarin Chinese · derived from

• ปากีสถาน

  Thai · borrowed from

• เติร์กเมนิสถาน

  Thai · borrowed from

• Pa-ki-xtan

  Vietnamese · borrowed from

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