Word Origin Summary

*stā́nam is attested in Proto-Indo-Iranian. 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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• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root