Word Origin Summary

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

Descendants and Related Terms

• ستان

  FAS · inherited from

• -istão

  Portuguese · derived from

• -ਇਸਤਾਨ

  Punjabi · derived from

• Kasakstan

  Faroese · derived from

• Afganistan

  Faroese · derived from

• Pakistan

  Faroese · derived from

• Turkmenistāna

  Latvian · derived from

• -stʾn'

  Middle Persian · inherited from

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